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TX Settlers/ Austin
Vocabulary Game
Term | Definition |
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Anglo | A white person of European descent |
Colony | a country or area under the control of another country: a group of people live there |
Constitution | a written statement outlining the basic laws for a state or 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 |
Militias | groups of citizen soldiers |
Pneumonia | a serious lung infection that makes it hard to breathe |
Replublic | a political system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them |
Revolution | an act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another |
Tejano | a Mexican-born texan |
Texians | people living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836 |
Colony | a country or area under the control of another country; a group of people living there |
Commerce | the buying or selling of goods and services |
Conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americans in the sixteenth century |
Convert | to adopt new religious beliefs |
Empresarios | people given land grants by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there |
Hostile | very unfriendly |
Mestizo | 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 faith with others, usually in other countrys |
Presidio | a Spanish fort staffed by soldiers |
Squatters | people who settle on land without rights or titles |
Western Hemispere | the part of the world that includes the continents of North and South America |