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Settling Texas

Question: According to the colonization laws of 1825, a man who married a Mexican woman received more ________.
Answer: Land

Question: Where did McMullen and McGloin (empresarios) establish a second colony of Irish immigrants?
Answer: San Patricio 

Question: What empresario was permitted to settle in Nacogdoches, and found people living on the land when he arrived?
Answer: Haden Edwards 

Question: Why did Stephen F. Austin request land along the coast for his colony?
Answer: He needed a port for supplies and settlers.

Question: What was the colony of Martin de Leon troubled by?
Answer: Native Americans

Places

Question: What was the headquarters for the "Little Colony"?
Answer: Bastrop

Question: What was the headquarters for Green de Witt's colony?
Answer: Gonzales

Question: Where was Stephen F. Austin imprisoned?
Answer: Mexico City

Question: What was the providence united with Texas to form a new Mexican state?
Answer: Coahuila

Question: What area in East Texas was the first clash between colonists and Mexican authorities?
Answer: Nacogdoches

People

Question: Who was the first Anglo American to secure permission from the Spanish to bring settlers to Texas?
Answer: Moses Austin

Question: Who was the representative to the Coahuila and Texas legislature?
Answer: Baron de Bastrop

Question: Who opened the first school in the new town of San Felipe de Austin?
Answer: Thomas J. Pilgrim 

Question: Austin approved the Consultation because he thought __________ was becoming a dictator. 
Answer: Santa Anna

Question: What was the name of the woman who helped found Victoria?
Answer: Patricia de la Garza de Leon

Laws and Conventions

Question: What ended all immigration to Texas from the United States?
Answer: Law of April 6, 1830

Question: What document did Santa Anna promise to support?
Answer: Mexican Constitution of 1824

Question: Where the first Texas conventions in 1832 and 1835 were held?
Answer: San Felipe

Question: Where was the constitution wrote for the proposed Mexican state of Texas? (hint:looking for the name of the meeting and not an actual place)
Answer: Convention of 1833

Question: What were statements in which colonists declared their loyalty to Mexico? 
Answer: Turtle Bayou Resolution 

Road to Independence

Question: What did the flag say, that the Texans flew at the battle of Gonzales?
Answer: Come and Take It

Question: What day is Texas Independence Day celebrated?
Answer: March 2

Question: Who was the ad interim president of Texas?
Answer: David G. Burnet 

Question: Who kept a diary of the proceedings of the Convention of 1836?
Answer: Colonel William F. Gray

Question: According to the Texas Constitution of 1836, slavery was ________. 
Answer: Legal