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Vocabulary game
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| presidio | a Spanish fort staffed by soilders |
| commerce | the buying and selling of goods and services |
| conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americas in the sixteenth century |
| empresarios | people given land grants by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there |
| mezitos | people of mixed American Indian and European descent living i n Mexico |
| revoloution | an act of overthrowing or replacing one government with another |
| rebublic | a political system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them |
| squatters | people who settle on land without rights or titles |
| Tejano | people living in Mexico Texas between 1821-1836 |
| empressario | a person given a land grant from the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit peop |
| constitution | a written statement outlining the basic laws for a state or country |
| colony | a country or area under control of another country: a group of people living there |
| Anglo | a white person of European descent |
| land grant | a contract that gives ownership of a plot of land |
| pneumonia | a serious lung infection that makes it hard to breathe |
| Western Hemisphere | a part of the world that includes the continent of the north and south America |
| hostile | very unfriendly |
| mission | a religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization |
| mestizos | people of mixed American Indian and European descent living in Mexico |
| nomadic | having no fixed home: moving with the seasons in search of food |
| missionaries | people who share their religious faith with others.usually in other countries |
| massacre | a killing of many people |