Stephen F. Austin - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

This man received an empresario contract from the Mexican state to recruit Catholic settlers to Texas, which he did with the “Old Three Hundred.” For 10 points each:

[10e] Name this “father of Texas” who, with Haden Edwards, settled land around the present-day city of Nacogdoches (“nack-uh-DOH-chiss”), which is home to a university named for him.

ANSWER: Stephen F. Austin [or Stephen Fuller Austin; accept Stephen F. Austin State University]

[10m] In his request for an empresario contract, Austin proposed cultivating cotton and this crop. The Williams brothers cultivated this crop along the Brazos River on land that became an aptly named company town after Isaac H. Kempner bought their business.

ANSWER: sugar [or sugarcane; or Saccharum; accept Imperial Sugar; accept Sugar Land]

[10h] After his empresario status was revoked in 1826, Edwards defied Austin and allied with a local Cherokee tribe to declare this short-lived independent state.

ANSWER: Republic of Fredonia [or Fredonian Republic; accept Fredonian Rebellion]

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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	24	7.50	54%	17%	4%

Data


Florida	Arizona State	10	10	0	20
Berkeley A	Northwestern	10	0	0	10
Columbia A	Chicago B	0	0	0	0
Truman State	Chicago C	10	0	0	10
Berkeley B	Chicago D	0	0	0	0
Duke	Claremont Colleges	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Penn	10	0	0	10
Stanford	Cornell A	0	0	0	0
Harvard	Cornell B	0	0	0	0
Indiana	Waterloo	10	10	0	20
Iowa State	Georgia Tech	0	0	0	0
Maryland	Brown	0	0	0	0
McGill	Minnesota B	0	0	0	0
NYU	Illinois	0	0	0	0
Purdue	Minnesota A	10	0	0	10
WUSTL B	Rutgers	0	0	0	0
Kentucky	South Carolina	10	0	0	10
Texas	North Carolina A	10	0	10	20
Toronto A	Michigan	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt	North Carolina B	10	0	0	10
Toronto B	Virginia	10	0	0	10
WUSTL A	Chicago A	0	0	0	0
Johns Hopkins	Yale A	10	0	0	10
Ottawa	Yale B	10	0	0	10