1. Pg 49 – Unit 5 Mexican National Period Table of Contents – Page 50
Pg – Unit 5 Vocab
Pg. 53 – Moses and Stephen F. Austin Notes
Pg. 54 – Austin Letters
Pg. 55 – My Austin Letter
Pg. 56 – TX Travelers and Things They Took
Pg. 57 – Economics and History
Pg TX Colonization/Cartoon
Pg. 59 – Other Empresarios to Texas

3. Moses Austin & Stephen F. Austin
Chapter 5: Colonization of Texas
Moses Austin & Stephen F. Austin

4. Moses Austin Business man who had many failed ventures in the U.S.A
Wanted to start fresh in the West
Granted permission from Spain and given a sitio (4.428 acre plot of land)
Officially became a Spanish citizen

5. Moses Austin (continued)
Moses started a bank that failed due to speculators - (those who buy cheap and sell high)
Traveled to Texas to get more land from the Spanish
This plan was approved but he got sick on the voyage back home
He died on June 10, 1821 but his son Stephen F. Austin would carry out his plan for settling Texas

6. Stephen F. Austin Started out for Texas at 27 years old
Chose land between the Colorado and Brazos Rivers- good for agriculture
He began rounding up settlers under the following conditions:
Pledge loyalty to Mexico not America
Become Roman Catholic
Follow the strict rules of the colony

8. STOP – Austin Letters Activity

9. Stephen F. Austin’s Colony and the Old 300

10. Settlement Begins
Lively – ship that carried settlers and supplies to the Colorado River
Sailed on Nov. 20, 1821
Lively wrecked near Galveston
Supplies and settlers were lost
The first settlers brought slaves
Austin disliked slavery, but colonists would not come to Texas without them.

11. Problems in the Colony Austin gone for 1 year Drought
Karankawas – saw colonists as intruders
Several colonists were killed
Colony size decreased
Settlers organized a militia to protect the colonists from Indian attacks

12. The Old Three Hundred Call for new settlers 1824 – almost 300 families
1,347 white people
443 slaves
Most colonists were from the Southern U.S.
The old 300 are the first 300 families to TX
But, only 297 received grants for land

13. Women of the Colony Jane Long Wife of James Long (filibuster)
“Mother of Texas”
Received land grant in Fort Bend
Opened a hotel

14. Mary Crownover Rabb
1823
9 kids
Travels and Adventures in Texas in the 1820’s (book about her memories along the Brazos River)

15. Time Out! Recall Who were the Old 300?
What challenges did settlers in Austin’s colony face?
Who was known as the “Mother of Texas” and why?
What is a militia?

16. STOP – Texas Travelers and Things They Took

17. Life in the Colony Women cooked and cleaned
Build fires
Make soap
Made clothes
Watch kids
Lived in log cabins with dirt floors
Had to bring everything with you (wagon)
Almost no crime
Peace with neighboring Indians

18. San Felipe de Austin 1823 – town created at heart of colony
Near present-day Sealy
San Felipe de la Garza (MX Governor) suggested the name
Called the town San Felipe
Housed the government offices of the colony
SFA conducted his business there

19. Overall Achievements of Austin
Austin had lots of power in Texas
Helped settlers
Served as a link between settlers and MX Gov’t
Austin wrote…“I owe loyalty and gratitude to Mexico.”
Austin won 3 more contracts for more than 900 families
Most successful Empresario in Texas

20. Time Out! Sequencing Put the following in chronological order:
The Lively sails from New Orleans.
Stephen F. Austin travels to Mexico City.
Jane Long arrives in Austin’s colony.
Stephen F. Austin founds San Felipe de Austin.