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Why did the Mexican government encourage Irish people to settle in Texas?
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∙ 14y ago
The First Irish immigrants didn't settle in Texas. They actually settled in urban areas such as New York or New Jersey and they worked in factories. At the time Ireland was having a massive potato famine and since husbands could no longer feed their families they started applying to adds they would see on the backs of news papers, they would read "Come to America the land of great opportunity, If you show up in America at this location (They would have the State, city, and address) with this add we will give you a job, money, and a place to live".
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 14y agoSo the locals would shoot them instead.
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What did the Mexican government hope to accomplish by encouraging people from the United States to settle in Texas?
Mexican government encouraged Americans to settle in Texas because the Mexican government hoped Americans would develop the land.
How did government and railroads encourage settlement of the west?
The government continued to pass laws to encourage people to settle the West, while the railroads made transportation from the east to the west faster and more convenient.
What did the federal government do to encourage people to settle in the prairie provinces during the early 1900?
Sen. Byron L. Dorgan
In the 1820 Was granted permission by the Mexican government to settle Americans on land in Texas?
texas
Why did the Spanish and Mexican governments need people to settle Texas?
No
What did Texas do in 1830?
In 1830, Texas belonged to Mexico. The Mexican government encouraged Americans to move there and settle.
Why did the dutch encourage people to settle in the new netherland?
promote large scale agriculture
How did the federal government encourage western settlement?
The Federal government encouraged western settlement with the Homestead Act. This was a government policy that said that people who were willing to settle western land would be given large sections of land very cheap.
Who was it that led a group of people to settle on Mexican land that is now Utah?
Brigham Young
How did the Dutch encourage people to settle in Netherlands?
They offered free land to anyone who could find 50 settlers.
How did dutch encourage people to settle new Netherlands?
They offered free land to anyone who could find 50 settlers.
How did dutch encourage people to settle in new Netherlands?
They offered free land to anyone who could find 50 settlers.
