1. After the Panic of 1819, American colonization of Texas began!
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After the Panic of 1819, American colonization of Texas began!
Gone To Texas

2. Texas Fever 1821 – 1830’s
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3. People who came to Texas
Farmers (mostly southerners from the U.S.)
Europeans (British, Irish, Scottish, French, German, Italian, etc)
African Americans (both free & slaves)
Native Americans (Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Delaware, Shawnee)
Mexicans or Tejanos (Texans of Spanish heritage)
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4. How did people get to Texas
Covered wagons
Horseback
Flatboats
Ships
Walked
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5. Push Factors Reasons for people to leave the U.S. or their home land
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6. Push Factors Debts from the Panic of 1819 Financial depression
Business failures
Inability of U.S. officials to:
collect debts
get fugitives in Texas
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7. Reasons for people to choose to come and live in TX
Pull Factors
Reasons for people to choose to come and live in TX
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8. Pull Factors Cheap land --- 12 ½ an acre New start in life
Easy payment terms
Fertile soil – farming
Generous colonization laws for acreage
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9. G.T.T What does it mean? GONE TO TEXAS
When people left town owing money or accused of a crime, people would say they had…
GONE TO TEXAS
What does it mean?
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10. G.T.T Why Settlers Came: escaping hard times, debts
escaping criminal charges
U.S. creditors and authorities had no power in Texas
Texas had cheaper land; easier payment terms
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11. G.T.T How They Traveled on foot by covered wagon on horseback
by flatboats on rivers
by ocean going steamships
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12. Upon their arrival in Texas, the settlers would:
Choose land near rivers and streams to build their farms and towns
Avoid areas where hostile Indians lived
All lived in the Gulf Coastal Plains region
EXAMPLES of growing towns:
Galveston, San Antonio,
Nacogdoches, Goliad,
Columbia, San Felipe de
Austin, Matagorda, Harrisburg,
Washington on the Brazos,
Gonzales, Victoria, Velasco,
Brazoria, Anahuac, Seguin

13. Get to Texas Today!
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