MAS 374 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Moses Austin, Empresario, Nueces River

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Mexican American Studies
• Course: MAS 374
• Professor: M Menchaca

Document Summary

Instituted policy of mexico to govern settlers: offered large amount of acreage, approx. 4,438 land was offered to them (11 leagues = 48,000 acres) each: austin was given >239,000 acres to give, zavala colony and de leon colony (victoria) was set to be given away. Mexican constitution (1824: me(cid:454)i(cid:272)o de(cid:448)eloped a si(cid:373)ilar stru(cid:272)ture of go(cid:448)"t as the usa, territorial divisions were instituted for texas, mexico was going over the debate over slavery (approx. In texas would be governed in coahuila: constitutional convention gave every state the right to either maintain or abolish slavery (veracruz was the only one to maintain it) Texas law on slavery, etc: stated that immigration had to stop (because texas would have been lost to the. United states: movements to separate were brewing early-on, stephen austin thought things could be settled, wanted separate statehood from coahuila in an attempt to not be a part of the.