Why did mexico want americans to settle in texas?

Initially, Mexico recruited white settlers (Anglos/Texians) to become loyal TX citizens; Farmers were drawn to rich new cotton land selling for a few cents an acre; some were wealthy planters that brought large number of slaves with them when Mexico was prohibiting slave importation; settlers lusted for new western land and TX was a accessible Mexican borderland

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- tobacco.

- "rolfe reacted to consumer demand by importing seed from the west indies and cultivating the plant in the jamestown colony. those tobacco seeds became the seeds of a huge economic empire.the tobacco economy rapidly began to shape the society and development of the colony. growing tobacco takes its toil on the soil."

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