Filibusters Quiz

Force of 800 who captured Nacogdoches, but was eventually defeated.

• Empresario
• Old Three Hundred
• Gutierrez-Magee Expedition
• Filibuster

Adventure seeker, later was also known as a trouble maker.

• Filibuster
• Empresario
• Philip Nolan
• James Long

Someone who arranges business deals including the buying and selling of land.

• Filibuster
• Realtor
• James Long
• Empresario

After Mexico gained its independence from Spain the new Mexican government drafted this Federal Constitution...

• The Mexican Constitution of 1824
• Erasmo Seguin
• Filibuster
• Empresario

One of the first adventure seekers who was looking for horses; eventually executed by the Spanish.

• Philip Nolan
• Moses Austin
• Stephen F. Austin
• James Long

Received the first land grant from Spain to settle Americans in Texas.

• Father Hidalgo
• Stephen F. Austin
• Moses Austin
• James Long

Fulfilled his father's dream to colonize Texas by paving the way for Anglo colonization.

• Stephen F. Austin
• Moses Austin
• Philip Nolan
• James Long

Captured Nacogdoches and proclaimed Texas an independent state.

• Stephen F. Austin
• Moses Austin
• James Long
• Jane Long

Started the independence movement in Mexico in 1810 and was executed.

• Father Hidalgo
• Moses Austin
• Stephen F. Austin
• Philip Nolan

Original settlers in Austin's colony.

• Old Three Hundred
• Filibusters
• Empresarios
• Gutierrez-Magee Expedition