Explain the reasons that many Anglo Americans wanted to settle in Texas.
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Stephen Austin was given land to offer to them; settlers wanted land for farming and ranching. ... They sent troops to Texas, battled the Texans, then signed a treaty giving Texas independence.Anglo-Americans were drawn by inexpensive land and believed annexation of Texas to the United States was likely and would improve the market for the land. Some settlers were fleeing debts and sought refuge in the Mexican colony, where they were safe from American creditors.Most of these were of mixed Indian and Spanish blood and were usually poor ranch hands or small farmers and herders. In the 1820`s settlers from Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas and Missouri moved to Texas. These were mostly yeoman farmers driven by the Mexican governments policy instituted to attract settlers.
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Early settlers coming to Texas received grants of land by the Spanish, Mexican and Republic of Texas governments. Spain issued land grants as early as 1716 to groups of colonists for settlement in towns, then to individuals beginning in 1767. The Spanish government passed a measure in 1820 to open Texas to foreigners who were to be Catholic (or convert to Catholicism), industrious and willing to become Spanish citizens in return for generous land grants. In January 1821, Moses Austin was promised a contract for land in exchange for bringing 300 Catholic families to settle in Texas. After his death in June of that year, his son Stephen F. Austin took over the contract.
Wanting to defend Texas from United States expansionism and hostile Indians, Mexico continued the Spanish colonization plan after its independence in 1821 by granting contracts to "empresarios," land agents who would settle and supervise selected, qualified immigrants. Thirty or so colonization contracts were made during the Mexican-ruled period of Texas, settling some 9,000 families. All grants were defined by more or less definite geographical boundaries and all empresarios had six years in which to carry out their contracts.
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Anglo-Americans were drawn by inexpensive land and believed annexation of Texas to the United States was likely and would improve the market for the land. Some settlers were fleeing debts and sought refuge in the Mexican colony, where they were safe from American creditors. Immigrants to Texas faced isolation and hardship as they established their homesteads and made their living from the land.
Land was also granted to settlers by the Republic of Texas. The 1836 Constitution stated that all heads of families living in Texas on March 4, 1836, except Africans and Indians, were granted "first class" headrights of one league and one labor (4,605.5 acres), and single men one-third of a league (1,476.1 acres). Both the Republic of Texas and State of Texas granted lands for military service during the Texas Revolution.
A few colonization contracts were granted by the Republic of Texas. The last colony allowed to be created was the Mercer colony, by a contract signed on January 29, 1844. Upon annexation of Texas to the United States, the Convention of 1845 called for colony contracts to be ended.
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