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enacted a colonization law authorizing the national government to enter into a contract granting land to an “empresario,” or promoter, who was required to recruit a minimum of two hundred families to settle the grant.
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was inundated with requests by foreign speculators to establish colonies within the state. There was no shortage of people willing to come to Texas. The United States was still struggling with the aftermath of the
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4438 acres of irrigable land, with an additional 4438 available to those who owned cattle. Empresarios and individuals with large families were exempt from the limit.
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workers - the government refused to legalize slavery.
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386:Benjamin Drake Lovell and John Purnell
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304:East Texas, northwest of Nacogdoches
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170:General Colonization Law
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19:Not to be confused with
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153:to near present-day
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220:Notable empresarios
162:Agustín de Iturbide
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