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Chapter 8: Americans Settle in Texas Section 1: Moses Austin and Texas

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Chapter 8: Americans Settle in TexasSection 1: Moses Austin and Texas

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Bellwork

Identify some important events

taking place around 1820

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Moses Austin's Texas Dream• June 1798:

Moses Austin moves to Missouri (a part of Spanish Louisiana)

Moses Austin

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Moses Austin's Texas Dream

•Mines lead

•Becomes a Spanish citizen

•Becomes wealthy and part owner of the Bank of St. Louis

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Moses Austin's Texas Dream

•1819: US experiences a financial panic

•Financial Panic—an economic crisis

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Moses Austin's Texas Dream

•Panic of 1819 leads to a depression

•Depression—period of low economic activity

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Moses Austin's Texas Dream

•Many banks fail, including the Bank of St. Louis

•Austin is financially ruined

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Moses Austin's Texas Dream•Austin had profited in Spanish

lands before•Came up with plan to establish a

colony of U.S. families in Texas; hoped to regain wealth

•Sets out for Texas

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Moses Austin Goes to Texas• Moses visits his

son, Stephen, in Arkansas

• Son doubts his father, but gives him $50 and a horse

Stephen F. Austin

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Moses Austin Goes to Texas

•December 23, 1820: Moses arrives at San Antonio

•Recent filibuster activity made the Spanish suspicious of Americans

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Moses Austin Goes to Texas

•Governor Antonio María Martínez orders Austin out of San Antonio

•Encounters Baron de Bastrop—an old friend

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Moses Austin Goes to Texas

•Bastrop convinces Governor Martínez to allow Austin to stay in San Antonio

•Bastrop agrees to help Austin with his efforts

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Moses Austin Goes to Texas

•In the 1820s, Mexico needed a larger

population if it was to maintain control of

its territory

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Moses Austin Goes to Texas• Austin had been a loyal

Spanish citizen

• Colony would improve the economy and help protect the region from Indian attacks and U.S. invasion

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Moses Austin Goes to Texas• Governor Martínez agrees to

urge his superiors to approve Austin’s plan

• Austin returns home

• Difficult journey

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Moses Austin Goes to Texas• Health problems

• Spring 1821: Receives word that colony was approved—granted the right to settle 300 Catholic families from Louisiana

• Became extremely ill and asks wife to write Stephen

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Why Moses Austin Wanted to Start a Colony

Why Spanish Officials Approved Austin’s Colony