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TxSettlers/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 living 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 long infection that makes it hard to breath |
Republic | 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 |
Texian | People living in Mexico 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 faith with others, usually in other countries |
Presidio | A Spanish fort staffed by soldiers |
Squatters | People who settle on land without rights titles |
Western Hemisphere | The part of the world that includes the continents of North and South America |