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TX Settlers/ Austin
Vocabulary Game
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |