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| Moses Austin | paved the way for the Anglo American colonization of Texas |
| depression | a period of low economic activity, often marked by high unemployment |
| Stephen Fuller Austin | carried out his father's plans to colonize Texas |
| Austin's responsibilities regarding the land | survey the land and obtain titles for the land |
| 12 1/2 cents | the price settlers paid for land in Texas |
| the requirements for coming to Texas | take an oath of allegiance, become Catholic, become a Mexican citizen, and be of good moral character |
| survey | to measure for size and boundaries |
| title | a legal right to the possession of property |
| Lively | the name of Austin's ship that was to bring supplies and settlers to Texas |
| Andrew Robinson | first settler to enter Austin's colony; built a ferry across the Brazos River |
| Jared Groce | the wealthiest of all the colonists to come to Austin's colony |
| empresario | the Spanish word for contractor; a person who arranges business transactions |
| $1.25 | the price of land in the United States |
| problems in Austin's colony | drought, disagreements over land, Native American raids |
| militia | a group of citizens acting as a military force, usually all able bodied men |
| The Old Three Hundred | the original three hundred settlers of Austin's first colony were called this |
| Southern United States | where the original settlers of Austin's colony came from |
| Gail Borden | invented the process for condensing milk |
| San Felipe de Austin | the capital of Austin's colony |
| U.S. Constitution | what the Mexican constitution of 1824 was similar to |
| federal | a government where power is divided between the national and state governments |
| Mexico | settlers moving to Texas had to become citizens of this country |
| empresario contract | the type of contract most settlers coming to Texas used |
| the reason most settlers used empresario contracts | they did not speak Spanish; the empresarios held the best lands |
| Stephen F. Austin | the most successful empresario |
| Green DeWitt | the second most successful empresario |
| Gonzalez | the headquarters for Green DeWitt's colony |
| Victoria | the town founded by Martin DeLeon |
| Refugio and San Patricio | two Irish colonies in Texas |
| Nancy Tevis | this woman helped found the town of Beaumont |
| department | a land division within Texas |
| 21,000 | the estimated population of Texas in 1834 |
| slavery | this was technically illegal in Texas |
| Mary Austin Holley | cousin of Stephen F. Austin who wrote books and letters describing life in Texas |
| Frances Trask | opened one of the first schools for girls in Texas |
| dowry | the money, property, and goods a bride gave to her husband upon marriage |
