Empresario (What is an empresario?) Land Grants

Purposes for and methods of settlement

Settlement ChartDraw a 3 column chart in your

social studies spiral. Spanish Mexican Anglo

Settlement Settlement SettlementPurpose

Wanted

How they

did it

Method

Spanish SettlementPurpose

◦Secure Spanish Control in the New World

◦Gold, Silver, and Resources

Method A colony of Spain Resettled other Spanish Colonists

(Canary Islanders)

Spanish• Wanted• To lay claim to Texas

How they did it◦ Created Missions, Presidios, and

Civil Settlements (What is a civil settlement?)

Mexican SettlementPurpose

◦Increase population in Northern Mexico

Method Empresario Grants Supporting towns already in the area Large Ranches

Mexicans

Wanted◦ Economic opportunities

How they did it◦ Created civil settlements and

empresario (what is an empresario?) grants

Anglo SettlementPurpose

◦Increase population in Texas

Method Allowed because of the National

Colonization Law(What were the colonization laws?) Empresario Grants Settled in Northern Texas Farming Agriculture

Anglos

Wanted◦Economic Opportunities◦New Start◦Escape Debt (What is debt?)

How they did it◦Empresario Grants