1.  Chapter 8.2

2.  Empresario land grants, such as the one granted to Stephen F. Austin, allowed the government of Mexico to quickly populate Texas.

3.  The Mexican Constitution of 1824 was written after Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821.  The Republic took the name of the United Mexican States, and made Catholicism its official religion.

4.  Due to its small population, Texas was not organized as its own separate state under the Mexican Constitution.  Instead, Texas was merged with Coahuila to form the Mexican state of Tejas y Coahuila.

5.  Law that set up guidelines to the colonization of Tejas y Coahuila & allowed Stephen F. Austin and other empresarios to receive land grants in Texas.

6.  By 1830, 30 other Empresarios had received land grants in Texas.  Also, the Texas population had grown to 20,000 people.

7.  Green DeWitt settled 166 families in Gonzales, Texas by 1831.

8.  Martin de Leon was a Mexican empresario who settled 200 Mexican families in South Texas.  He & his wife founded Victoria in 1824.