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The Colonization Laws
The Mexican government tried to encouragemore Mexicans to move to Texas:
The Colonization Law of 1823 allowed settlers to buy large amounts of land at very low cost. They also didn’t have to pay taxes for 6 years.
In 1824, Mexico passed a new constitutionestablishing a federal system like the U.S.
Texas was merged with the Mexican state of Coahuila to form a new state, Coahuila y Tejas.
The Colonization Law of 1824 gave the state governor the right to set the rules for colonization.
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The state flag of Coahuila y Tejas, formed in 1824.
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The Empresario System
Under the colonization laws, empresarios
(Spanish for “ contractor” ) were responsible
for settling Texas.
Empresarios acted as land agents, recruiting a
certain number of people to move to Texas.
They provided settlers with loans and supplies.
They also acted as the colony’s representative to
the Mexican government.
For their services, the empresarios were paid
with large grants of land.
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The Empresario System
Most settlers in empresario colonies came
from the United States.
To obtain permission from the Mexican
government to own land in Texas, these
settlers had to agree:
To become loyal citizens of Mexico;
To become Catholic; and
To actually live on the land.
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M oses Austin
The first Anglo empresario in Texas was Moses Austin, a failed businessman who had once helped the Spanish government settle parts of Missouri.
He proposed settling Anglo-Americans in Texas.
Fearful of filibusters, the Spanish at first rejected his proposal in 1820.
Before he could gain final approval, he died in June 1821. His dying request was that his son, Stephen, would continue his work.
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Moses Austin, the first
Anglo empresario to
receive permission to
colonize Texas.
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Stephen F. Austin
Thanks largely to the help of a prominent
Tejano, Erasmo Seguin, the new Mexican
government allowed Austin to succeed his
father as empresario.
For his colony, he chose a spot between the
Colorado and Brazos Rivers that offered ideal
farming land.
Austin was careful to recruit only honest, hard-
working settlers with the key skills needed to
establish the colony.
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Stephen F. Austin, the “Father of Texas.”
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Life in Austin’s Colony
The first Anglo-American families of Austin’s colony became known as the “ Old Three Hundred.”
Life in the colony was hard at first:
Colonists lived in log cabins.
They had to make their own clothes, soap and tools.
They fought with hostile Karankawa Indians.
They didn’t even have schools!
However, by 1825 the colony’s population had grown to about 1,800 people.
Almost 450 of them were African slaves.
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Life was rustic in Austin’s colony.
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A replica of a settler’s home near San Felipe de Austin, the
capital of Austin’s Old Three Hundred colony.
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Austin’s success
prompted other
empresario
attempts to settle
Texas.
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Other Empresarios
Martín De León
Only empresario to found a colony in Texas
using Mexican settlers.
Established the current city of Victoria.
Green DeWitt
Received a contract to settle 400 families along
the Lavaca, San Marcos and Guadalupe
Rivers.
Founded the town of Gonzales.
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Martin De Leon, the only
Mexican empresario.
Green DeWitt, probably the
most successful empresario
besides Stephen Austin.
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Other Empresarios
Haden Edwards
Received a contract to bring 800 families to an area near Nacogdoches in 1825.
Came into conflict with settlers already in the area.
Edwards declared Texas an independentnation, calling it the Republic of Fredonia.
Soldiers from Mexico and militia from Austin’s colony helped end the revolt quickly.
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Haden Edwards, founder
of the short-lived
“Republic of Fredonia.”
The Republic’s flag.
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The Empresario System Ends
The empresario system dramatically
increased the population of Texas:
Less than 3,000 people in 1820
About 25,000 by 1835 (including 2,000 slaves)
Mexico was worried, however, about settlers’
loyalty.
By the mid-1830s, Texas was divided
between Anglo settlers in the north and east
and Tejanos in the south.
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Statue of Stephen F. Austin near San Felipe de Austin.