Across
- 3. name of Stephen F. Austins orignal colony
- 4. law setting guidelines for colonization and gave empresarios land grants
- 6. Year Pineda mapped the Texas coastline
- 7. leader of a colony and chose who was accepted or denied into the colonies
- 8. anglo empresario established colony near the town of Gonzales
- 10. The Mission/Presidio system was created during this ERA
- 12. the "Father" of Texas
- 13. First American allowed to settle colonies in Texas but died before he could do so
- 14. the current ERA we have been studying
- 15. Mexican Empresario,founded the first Mexican colony in the town of Victoria
Down
- 1. reason Texas wanted and was permitted to keep slaves
- 2. written after Mexico gains independence from Spain
- 5. Year San Antonio was founded
- 6. Year that Mexico won independence from Spain
- 9. successful Tejano rancher who helped S.F.A. find land for his colony
- 11. the main reason why people wanted to join colonies
