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TX Settlers/Austin
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anglo | a white person of European descent |
| Colony | a country or area under the control of another country:a group of people living there |
| Constitution | a written statement outlining the basic laws for a state of country |
| Empresario | a person given a land grant by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there |
| Land grant | a contract that gives ownership of a plot of land |
| Massacre | a killing of many people |
| Milias | groups of citizen soldiers |
| Pneumonia | a serious lung infection that makes it hard to breath |
| Republic | a political system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them |
| Tejano | a Mexican-born Texan |
| Texians | people living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836 |
| Commerce | the buying and selling of goods and services |
| conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americas in the sixteenth century |
| convert | to adopt new religious beliefs |
| hostile | very unfriendly |
| mestizos | people of mixed American Indian and European descent living in Mexico |
| mission | a religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization |
| missionaries | people who share their religious faiths with others, usually in other countries |
| presidio | a Spanish fort staffed by soldiers |
| squatters | people settle on land without rights or tiltles |
| western hemisphere | the part of the world that includes the continents of North and South America |
| revolution | an act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another |