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Moses Austin made this deal with the Spanish.
Americans were promised free land, so Americans poured in.
Mexicans invited the American settlers into Texas. Texas-Mexico invited Americans to settle in Texas to stop Indian attacks. These settlers were required to be Catholic, become Mexican citizens, and follow Mexican laws.
Slavery.
Basically, since Mexico became independent from Spain. The first American settlers (known as empresarios) settled on eastern Texas in 1822, along the Brazos River.
Moses Austin
Moses Austin
Moses Austin made this deal with the Spanish.
Moses Austin made this deal with the Spanish.
Moses Austin made this deal with the Spanish.
American settlers wanted slavery.no oneaustin
who led 300 settlers into texas
Americans were promised free land, so Americans poured in.
American settlers did not want to obey the laws. American settlers wanted slavery.
Mexico needed American settlers to help defend its Texas frontier.
Relations between the Mexican government and American settlers in Texas begin to deteriorate because settlers refused to convert to Catholicism or free their slaves.
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