The name for a land agent who agreed to settle people into East Texas within a few years.

Someone who buys a large area of land, breaks it up into smaller portions, and resells the land to other people.

Stephen F. Austin felt Americans would not want to move to Texas unless this forced-labor institution was allowed to continue there.

This minister from the United States tried to buy Texas for $1million.

This condition made it difficult for farmers in East Texas to get supplies and send their goods to market.

Spain encouraged these people to build homes in Texas, hoping they would act as buffer between the Spanish towns and the Comanches and other Native American tribes.

These three strong groups fought for control of Mexico, trapping Texas settlers in the middle.

The only empresario to found a colony in Mexico, his settlement, Guadalupe Victoria, would later become a town known as Victoria.

It's the loop in the Red River that became home to the Caddo tribe of Native Americans.

Stephen Austin's settlers became Mexican citizens, but they always thought of themselves as [blank].

People in the United States thought that these people, not the military, should rule the country.

This speculator who failed at mining in the 1790s and received a contract to settle 30 families in Spanish held Louisiana Territory was also Stephen F. Austin's father.

He ruled Mexico until he was forced to abdicate (step down) from power in 1823, giving congress the opportunity to invalidate his laws, risking Stephen Austin's contract to settle in Texas.

Haden Edwards moved 800 families to a place near Nacogdoches where the land was already occupied. In the ensuing struggle, Edwards disrespected Mexican leaders and broke off a piece of land from Texas as an independent nation, calling it this.

Three conditions settlers in Texas had to meet.

This group of Native Americans saw Austin's colony as intruders and got into frequent battles, killing several colonists in the fighting.

Under this law, settlers in Texas (largely American) could get large amounts of land at very low cost and pay no taxes for six years. The only requirement was that the people become Mexican citizens.

This company fraudulently sold "scrip" to families moving to Texas, falsely claiming that this entitled the owner the right to claim a piece of Texas land. The people who bought scrip lost their money and owned nothing.

The practice of civilians taking an active role in making laws and decisions about running the country.

This empresario brought 800 families to Texas, but when Mexico temporarily banned US immigration, Stephen Austin convinced Mexico to give him this person's land.