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TX Settlers Austin
Spanish Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anglo | A white person European descent |
| Colony | A country or area under the control of another country: a group of people living there |
| Commissioner | An agent or person representing an organization |
| Disarm | To take someone's weapons |
| Economic Depression | A period in which an economy is affected by unemployment. Low output and poverty |
| Empresario | A person given a land grant by the the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people there |
| Entrepreners | People who who Start their own businesses |
| Executive | The branch of government responsible for carrying out the laws |
| Expelled | To be permanently kicked out of something |
| Fraternity | A social club for men |
| Immigration | The act of moving to a new country |
| Judicial | The branch of government responsible for enforcing the laws |
| Labor | A plot of land measuring 177 acres. Issued for planting crops. |
| Land grant | A contract that gives ownership of a plot of land |
| League | A plot of land measuring 4,428 acres issued for farming and grazing livestock |
| legislative | The branch of government responsible for making laws |
| Massacre | A killing of many people |
| Militias | Groups of citizen soldiers |
| Opponents | people who are against other people |
| Pneumonia | A serious long infection that makes it hard to breathe |
| Postmaster | A person in charge of a post office |
| Profit | To make money in a business |
| Rebellion | Open resistance to one's government |
| Repeal | To officially undo a law |
| Republic | A political system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them |
| 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 |
| Rituals | Acts or actions performed for a ceremony |
| Tejanos | A Mexican born Texan |
| Texians | people living in Mexican Texas between 1821 |
| Commerce | The buying and selling of goods and services |
| Conquistador | A Spanish conqueror of the Americans in the sixteenth century |
| Covert | To Adopt new religious beliefs |
| hostile | very unfriendly |
| mestizos | people of mixed American Indian and European culture decent living in Mexico |
| Mission | a religious and military outpost established by the Spainish during colonization |
| Missionaries | people who share their religious with others. Usually in other countries |
| Presido | a Spanish fort staffed by soldiers |
| Provinces | districts or regions of a territory |
| 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 |
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