Why was the empresario system important to the Mexican government?

1. The Mexican government did not have the resources to manage Texas, but wished to cede the unused territory to the United States.

2. The Mexican government desired an alliance and offered Texas as an incentive to win the compliance of the United States.

3. The Mexican government desired an alliance and offered Texas as an incentive to win the compliance of the United States.

4. The Mexican government wanted to collect taxes on the land in the Texas Territory and could only do so if the area was settled.

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Why was the empresario system important to the Mexican government?

1. The Mexican government did not have the resources to manage Texas, but wished to cede the unused territory to the United States.

2. The Mexican government desired an alliance and offered Texas as an incentive to win the compliance of the United States.

3. The Mexican government desired an alliance and offered Texas as an incentive to win the compliance of the United States.

4. The Mexican government wanted to collect taxes on the land in the Texas Territory and could only do so if the area was settled.

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3. The Mexican government desired an alliance and offered Texas as an incentive to win the compliance of the United States.

Explanation:

The empresario system was an effort by the Mexican Government to populate the state of Texas since it was unused land and it used empresarios that committed to take a certain number of families to settle in the state of Texas in a period of six years, the main goal was to be able to populate and collect taxes from those unused lands.