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Texas Revolution
Term | Definition |
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Annexation | To take over a territory and make it part of a larger territory |
Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting |
Cavalrymen | Soldiers who fight on horseback |
Constitution | A written statement outlining the basic laws for a state or country |
Declaration | An announcement |
Delegates | People who represent other people at a meeting |
Export | To sent goods into a country or state |
Immigration | The act of moving to a new country |
import | To bring goods into a country or state |
Mission | A religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization |
Rancher | A person who raises livestock such as cattle and horses |
Recruit | To select or get the services of someone |
reinforcements | Additional men used to build more strength |
Siege | A military strategy in which troops surround an area and cut of outside access to force a surrender |
Surrender | To give up |
Tejanos | Mexican-born Texans |
Thriving | Growing very well |
Democracy | Ability for people to have a say in government |
Dicator | A person who has absolute power |
Empresario | A person given a land grant by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there |
Frontiersman | A person who lives on the frontier |
Tejano | A Mexican-born Texan |
Texians | People living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836 |