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Tx Settle S Austin
Vocabulary Game
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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