History of the United States I / Unit 11 USH1 1524 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Moses and Stephen Austin
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The idea
Moses Austin, a once-prosperous entrepreneur reduced to poverty by the Panic of eighteen nineteen, asked Spain to let him settle three hundred English-speaking Americans in Texas.
In practice
Spain agreeing on condition that the settlers convert to Roman Catholicism.
Where people slip
He died in eighteen twenty-one asking his son Stephen to carry out the plan, and newly independent Mexico authorised Stephen instead.
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