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TX Settlers/S.Austin
Vocabulary game
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anglo | A white person of European descent |
| Colony | A country or area under control of another country:a group of people living there |
| Commissionar | An agent or person representing an organization |
| Constitution | A written statement outlining the basic laws for a state or country |
| Disarm | to take someone's wepon |
| Economic depression | a period of time when an economy is affected by unemployment, low output.and poverty |
| Empresario | A person given a land grant by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there |
| Entrepreneurs | People who start there own businesses |
| Executive | The branch of government that carries out laws |
| Expelled | To be permanently kicked out |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Americans in the sixteenth centery |
| 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 or titles |
| Western Hemisphere | The part of the world that includes the continents of North and South America |