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After Mexican independence in 1821, the Mexican government contracted "empresarios" or land agents to aid the settlement of Texas. Each empresario agreed to settle a specific number of Catholic families on a defined land grant within six years. Therefore the missionaries by converting families helped the empressaios get the certain number of catholics needed.
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It is showing the emotional reactions of people caught up in a natural tragedy.