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Tx Settle S Austin
Vocabulary Game
Term | Definition |
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colony | a country or area under the control of another country: a group of people living there. |
commerce | the buying and selling of goods and services. |
conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americans in the sixteenth century. |
convert | to adopt new religions. |
empresarios | people given land grants by the Mexican Government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there. |
hostile | very unfriendly |
missionaries | people who share their religious faith with others. |
mestizos | people of mixed American Idia |
mission | a religious and military outpost established by the spanish |
squatters | people that settle land without rights or titles |
Western Hemisphere | the part of the world that includes the continents North and South America |
Anglo | a white person of European descent |
Tejano | a Mexican born Texan |
Texians | people living in Mexican Texas between 1821 & 1836 |
massacre | a killing of many people |
militias | groups of citizen soldiers |
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 |
revolution | an act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another |
republic | a political system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them |
pneumonia | a serious lung infection that makes it hard to breathe |
presidio | a Spanish fort staffed by soldiers |