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What did the empresario system prevent settlers in Texas from doing?

farming on Mexican soil
living in Texas more than three years
trading enslaved people in Texas
bringing their enslaved persons to Texas

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User JCarlosR
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Each impresario agreed to settle a specific number of Catholic families on a defined land grant within six years. In return, the impresario received a land premium of just over 23,000 acres for every 100 families he settled.

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Trading enslaved people in Texas
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