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TX settlers/Austin
vocabulary game
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mestizos | people of mixed American Indian and European descent living in Mexico |
| masssacre | a killing of many people |
| anglo | a white person of European decent |
| pneumonia | a serious lung infection that makes it hard to breath |
| mission | a religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization |
| presidio | a Spanish fort staffed by soldiers |
| hostiles | very unfreindly |
| convert | to adopt new religious belifes |
| tejano | a Mexican born Texan |
| Texians | people living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836 |
| land grant | a contract that gives ownership of a plot of land |
| constitution | a written statement outlining the basic laws for a state or country |
| commerce | the buying and selling of goods and services |
| squatters | people who settle on land without rights or titles |
| missoinaries | people who share their religious faith with others. |
| western hemisphere | the part of the world that includes the continents of North and South Amarica |
| colony | a country or area under the control of another country;a group of people living there |
| conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americas in the sixteenth century |
| empresarious | people given land grants by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there |
| militias | groups of citizen soliders |
| rebublic | a political system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them |
| revoloution | an act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another |
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