| A | B |
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| Empresarios | businesspeople who promoted migration to Texas colonies |
| GTT | a popular phrase during the early colonization of Texas |
| Moses Austin | first empresario who tried to colonize Texas; he died before he could achieve his goal |
| Stephen F. Austin | Moses Austin’s son. Father of Texas, lead first successful colony in Texas |
| Old Three Hundred | name of the 297 families and single men who received land in Stephen F. Austin’s colony |
| Lively | small ship purchased by Stephen F. Austin to transport colonists and goods for the establishment of his colony |
| San Felipe de Austin | the capitol of Stephen F. Austin’s colony and the first capital of Texas |
| Little Colony | colony founded by Stephen F. Austin that was separate from his other colony and provided for settlement of 100 families |
| Secularize | to move from religious control (missions) to civil control (colonies) |
| Erasmo Seguin | alcalde (mayor) of San Antonio who helped Stephen F. Austin establish his colony |
| Imperial Colonization Law | Mexican law passed in 1823 that increased land grants in Texas for ranching and farming and freed settlers from paying taxes for six years |
| Bastrop | the main town of Little Colony |
| National Colonization Law of 1824 | Law passed by the Mexican government that allowed each Mexican state to set its own colonization policies and encouraged more immigration to Texas |
| Coahuila y Texas | State created by the Mexican government in 1824 by combining the separate states of Texas and Coahuila |
| State Colonization law of 1825 | Law passed by the state government of Coahuila y Texas that further opened Texas to settlement and immigration |
| Constitution of 1824 | Mexican constitution that gave limited power to the central government and broad local authority to the states |
