Who was Stephen Austin?

Question

Hi i need help with my sisters homework. LIke who is Stephen Austin? What was his role in the gorwth of territory? how is he honored today? And if u can u plz list five reasons why Mexico banned further settlement of Texas by Americans? Thanks!

Answer 1

Reasons for banning

Slavery
Too many Americans
Loss of Catholic Religion
Loss of Spanish Language
Teran's report that East Texas had little Spanish influence

Austin was an empresario known as the "Father of Texas"

Answer 2

1821-1822 laura, it should be "bring", not "brought". when did stephen austin "bring" families to texas. history is important but so is english usage.

Answer 3

Stephen F. Austin was born in the lead mining regions of southwestern Virginia (Wythe County), some 250 miles southwest of Richmond, Virginia. He was the second child of Moses Austin and Mary Brown, the first, Eliza, having lived only one month. On June 8, 1798, when he was five years old, his family moved forty miles west of the Mississippi River to the lead mining region in present-day Missouri. His father Moses Austin bought the site of Mine á Breton. In 1813, his father lobbied the territorial legislature to create the county of Washington and to locate the new county seat at the town he created, called Potosi in present-day Washington County, Missouri. When he was ten years old, his family sent him to be educated at Bacon Academy in Connecticut and then at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, from which he graduated in 1810.

After returning from Kentucky, Austin was employed at the family's general store in Potosi, and eventually took over most of the management of the family mining business from his father. On May 24, 1813, Austin was commissioned an ensign in the Missouri militia, and later in September he enlisted as a private in the First Regiment of Mounted Militia commanded by Colonel Alexander McNair. He was discharged on October 21, 1813, as a quartermaster sergeant. In 1815, Austin became a Freemason, joining Louisiana Lodge No. 109 at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, the first Masonic lodge west of the Mississippi River. He later transferred his membership to St. Louis Lodge No. 111. From 1815 to 1819, he served in the legislature of the Missouri Territory. As a member of the territorial legislature, he was influential in obtaining a charter for the struggling Bank of St. Louis.

After the failure of the family business in Missouri, Austin sought new opportunities and moved to the Arkansas Territory in 1820, where he engaged in mercantile and land speculation activities. In 1818, he had acquired a tract on the Red River called Long Prairie in southwest Arkansas. While he was in Arkansas, the territorial governor, James Miller, appointed him as circuit judge of the first judicial district of the territory. He served as circuit judge only from July to August 1820, then moved to Louisiana. He reached New Orleans in November of 1820, where he met and stayed with New Orleans lawyer and former Kentucky congressman Joseph H. Hawkins and made arrangement to study law.

During this time, his father Moses traveled to San Antonio and gained a grant of land in the Spanish territory of Texas, with the intention of settling three hundred Catholic U.S. families in Mexico. Austin was reluctant to join his father's Texas venture, but pressure from Hawkins to help support his father's venture was a key turning point for Stephen. Moses Austin died June 10, 1821. Stephen had boarded the steamer Beaver and departed New Orleans to meet Spanish officials lead by Erasmo Seguín. He was at Natchitoches, Louisiana on July 10, 1821, when he learned of his father's death. "This news has effected me very much, he was one of the most feeling and affectionate Fathers that ever lived. His faults I now say, and always have, were not of the heart."

His party traveled the 300 miles in three weeks to San Antonio with the intent of reauthorizing his father's grant, arriving on August 12. The grant was reauthorized by Governor Antonio María Martínez, who allowed Austin to explore the Gulf Coast between San Antonio and the Brazos River in order to find a suitable location for a colony. As guides for the party, Manuel Becerra, along with three Aranama Indians, went with the expedition.

Austin advertised the opportunity in New Orleans, stating that the land was available along the Brazos and Colorado rivers. A family of a husband, wife and two children would receive 1,280 acres at twelve and a half cents per acre. In December 1821, the first U.S. colonists crossed into the granted territory by land and sea, on the Brazos River in present day Fort Bend County, Texas.

Answer 4

He was six million dollar man. Part man part machine.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_F._Austin
http://www.lsjunction.com/people/austin.htm