Mr. Noel's Texas History
Warm Up Packet 3Directions: For the following questions you must complete the following steps:Circle words you do not knowWrite down subject of the readingWrite a short summary of what you have readAnswer the questions and underline where you can find the answer in the reading.IMPORTANT: This will be taken for a classwork grade on Friday. To receive full credit you must have completed ALL steps for each reading. If you lose this sheet and I have to give you another one I will deduct 15 points. November 9I must say as to what I have seen of Texas it is the garden spot of the world. The best land and best prospects for health I ever saw and I do so believe it is a fortune to any man to come here. There is a world of country to Settle...It's not required here to pay down for your League of land every man is entitled to his head right of 400-428 acres--they may make the money to pay for it on the land. I expect in all probability to settle on the Border or Choctaw Rio of Red River that I have no doubt is the richest country in the world good land and plenty of timber and the best springs & mill streams good range clear water--and every appearances of health game plenty.-Letter from a settler to TexasSubject - ____________________________________________________Summary - ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Based on this primary source, which of the following best states reasons why early settlers chose to come to Texas?An abundance of wild game and townsgood farming and cheap landprospects for good health and goldsprings and mill streams for irrigating dry landNovember 10I, Green DeWitt, a citizen of the United States…appear before your Excellency to make known to you that I have come to this country to obtain permission to colonize with four hundred industrious Catholic families ...[who] shall be required to [follow] the religious, civil and political laws of the country which…they adopt as their own…I therefore beg you to grant to me…lands…adjoining the colony of Stephen Austin...Green DewittSaltillo, April 7, 1825Subject - ____________________________________________________Summary - ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Based on this petition to the Mexican government, which of the following best summarizes a contribution made by Green DeWitt?This empresario wanted to settle two land grants near the Austin colony that would each have four hundred families.Green DeWitt wanted to bring many respectable families to settle near Stephen F Austin’s colony and to obey Mexican laws. Mr. DeWitt intended to settle families near the city of Austin. TX. and he did not expect these settlers to learn Spanish.He promised that the 400 families he brought to Texas would pay for their land within ten years and obey the law.November 12A mission was (is) a church built in a new area. Spanish priests, called friars, came to the frontier to convert Native Americans to Catholicism and to get them to work on the mission grounds farming and helping priests. The first mission in Texas was built in East Texas in 1690. Other missions were built in this area, largely to keep the French from taking over in East Texas. In 1718, the Spanish began building missions in central Texas. “A town called Bexar (later San Antonio) grew near some of the missions.” The missions in East Texas declined, but the ones near Bexar thrived. These missions were large and built to look like churches in Spain.The availability of cheap land, the possibility of extending slavery, and creating profitable farms lured Anglos to Texas. Settlement in Texas, led by empresarios and immigrant agents, was a business venture. Anglo settlements were mostly in East Texas, located on major rivers which were used for transportation. The earliest settlements were near Nacogdoches. The Austin Colony (the Old 300) had its central town of San Felipe de Austin on the banks of the Brazos River. Other empresarios settled areas in east and south Texas. German immigrants and other Europeans often went further west in Texas to areas around present-day New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.Subject - ____________________________________________________Summary - ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Based on the passage above, which of the following statements best summarizes the differences between Spanish and Anglo purposes for settling Texas?It was the Spanish settlers and not the Anglos that were interested in using slave labor as a means to make a profit.Anglos were intent of keeping Texas land away from German immigrants while the Spaniards did not want the French to take over East Texas.Anglos were drawn to Texas for economic reasons while the Spanish sought to spread Catholicism and keep other nations from settling in Texas.The Spanish sent families to settle Texas while Anglos primarily sent soldiers.November 13For the following question complete the following stepsPut a plus (+) for success, or minus (-) for failure under each place name.Underline in the short explanation what made you decide to put a + or –Answer the questionTexas settlers experienced success at which of the following locations according to the chart?Fredonia and AnahuacVelasco and Anahuac3019425952500Fredonia and VelascoVelasco only ................
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