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7th Grade TEKS Unit 4: Mexican Colonization & Empresario System | Texas History

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  • Unit Outline with Lesson-by-Lesson Overview
  • 8 highly curated presentations featuring built-in Discussion Based Questions (DBQ) in both PowerPoint (PPT) & Google Slides formats
  • 18 student exercise assignments complete with teacher answer keys -PLUS- Team Activity!
  • 19 links to supplemental videos on YouTube
  • Guided Notes Handouts for students for every lesson
  • Jeopardy Unit Review Game - Fun, interactive, and EASY-TO-USE!!
  • Unit Assessment with teacher answer key

**This unit has been specifically designed and curated following 7th Grade Social Studies TEKS standards and guidelines**

EVERY lesson in this unit comes loaded with amazing resources! You'll save HOURS of your time and have no problem whatsoever teaching your 7th grade students all about these important topics:

How the Mexican War of Independence impacted Texas

  • Why Texas experienced a decline in population
  • Why the new Mexican government was concerned over the population drop and they did about it

Anglos & Tejanos

  • Characteristics and traits of Anglos and Tejanos
  • How they were similar and different from one another
  • The historical significance in Texas of each group

Settlement in Texas during the 1820s & 1830s

  • Motivations of various groups of people to settle Texas
  • The unique and numerous problems of settling in Texas during this time

Empresarios

  • What was an emprerasio?
  • Analysis of the important role empresarios played in Texas during the 1820s and 1830s
  • Examination of the various colonies and empresarios established in Texas, such as San Felipe de Austin, DeWitt, and several others

Important Individuals during the settlement of Mexican Texas (1821-1836):

  • Moses and Stephen F. Austin
  • Father Miguel Ramos Arizipe
  • Baron de Bastrop
  • And, MANY more!!

The Old Three Hundred

  • Who they were and why they were called that
  • The role they played in settling Texas

Population of Texas between the early 1820s and the mid 1830s

  • How Anglo, Spanish, & Tejano settlement had an impact
  • Where various groups of settlers came from and how they traveled to Texas
  • How settlers chose where to settle (the many important factors they considered)

Settlements of Mexican Texas

  • Governance in Texas settlements: how each town had an ayunamiento and the role and responsibilities of an ayunamiento
  • Common professions people held once settling in Texas
  • The important role commerce and trade played in Mexican Texas
  • Overview of notable settlements such as San Antonio and Nacogdoches, as well as others

Life in Mexican Texas

  • What homes in Mexican Texas were like, and what it was like to live in one
  • Clothing of Mexican Texans
  • Food in Mexican Texas: different types of crops commonly grown and consumed in Mexican Texas
  • Education and Religion in Mexican Texas

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This incredible unit covers the following TEKS 7th grade social studies standards:

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Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
Identify key steps in a text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including vocabulary specific to domains related to history/social studies.
Describe how a text presents information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).

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