Chapter 8.2. Empresario land grants, such as the one granted to Stephen F. Austin, allowed the government of Mexico to quickly populate Texas.

Anglos Under Mexico

Chapter 8.2

Empresario Land Grants

Empresario land grants, such as the one granted to Stephen F. Austin, allowed the government of Mexico to quickly populate Texas.

Mexican Constitution of 1824

The Mexican Constitution of 1824 was written after Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821.

The Republic took the name of the United Mexican States, and made Catholicism its official religion.

Tejas y Coahuila Due to its small population, Texas

was not organized as its own separate state under the Mexican Constitution.

Instead, Texas was merged with Coahuila to form the Mexican state of Tejas y Coahuila.

State Colonization Law of 1825

Law that set up guidelines to the colonization of Tejas y Coahuila & allowed Stephen F. Austin and other empresarios to receive land grants in Texas.

Other Empresarios By 1830, 30

other Empresarios had received land grants in Texas.

Also, the Texas population had grown to 20,000 people.

Other Empresarios

Green DeWitt settled 166 families in Gonzales, Texas by 1831.

Other Empresarios Martin de Leon

was a Mexican empresario who settled 200 Mexican families in South Texas.

He & his wife founded Victoria in 1824.