Name ______Date ______Period Age of Graphic Organizer (On-Level) Use your study guide, notes and chapter 7 text to complete the graphic organizer. Please be specific!

Timeline— On the timeline below, put the following six events in order. Write the name of the event above or below the box with year provided.

Events: SFA starts a colony of Anglo Americans in Texas in ______; Mexican General (or National) Colonization Law of ______; State Colonization Law of ______; Moses Austin gains permission from Spanish government to colonize Texas with Anglo Americans in ______; the Mexican Federal Constitution of ______; Mexico gains independence from Spain in ______.

Sept. 1821 1823 1825

1820 Aug. 1821 1824

People ID

Person or Group Identification/Description

People who believed that governmental power should be concentrated in the nation-

al, or central, government in Mexico City.

The original 297 families that settled in Austin’s first colony. Most came from the

Southern states and selected the best land available.

Mexican-born who settled Mexican settlers in Texas. An expert horse-

man and rancher that settled families along the Guadalupe River near the coast.

First Anglo American to secure permission from Spain to bring American settlers to

Texas.

People who believed in the sharing of governmental power between the states and

the national government.

The next most successful empresario behind Stephen F. Austin. He established the

town of Gonzales and by 1831 had settled 166 titles of land.

Leading citizen of San Antonio who escorted Stephen F. Austin to meet with Span-

ish Governor Martinez in August 1821.

Son of Moses Austin who became the most successful empresario and settled hun-

dreds of families in Texas. Essential Questions Name the Era that deals with efforts of Mexico to populate and retain Texas from the formation of the Republic of Mexico in 1821 through the in 1836.

What political group wrote the Mexican Constitution of 1824?

What was the name of the Mexican state that combined the two provinces?

What law allowed SFA and other empresarios to receive land grants in Texas?

What law recognized slavery but outlawed slave trading?

Give at least two causes and two effects of why Stephen F. Austin was a successful colonizer.

Empresarios

Empresario, Year Town Founded or Capital Stephen F. Austin, 1821-1825 (1st Colony) Stephen F. Austin, 1827 (2nd Colony) Green DeWitt, 1825

Martin and Patricia de Leon, 1805- 1824 James Power & James Hewetson, 1828 John McMullen & James McGloin, 1828 Nancy Tevis, 1824-1836