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TX settlers/Austin
Term | Definition |
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Anglo | A white person of European descent. |
Colony | A country or area under the control of another country: a group of people living there. |
Constitution | A written statement outlining the basic laws for a state or country. |
Empressario | A person given a land grant by the Mexican Government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there. |
Tejano | A Mexican - born Texan . |
Texians | People living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836. |
Judaical | The branch of government responsible for enforcing the laws. |
Executive | The branch of government responsible for carrying out the laws . |
Land-Grant | A contract that gives ownership of a plot of a plot of land. |
Massacre | A killing of many people. |
Militjas | Groups of citizen soldiers |
Pneumonia | A serious lung infection that makes it hard to breath. |
Republic | A political system in witch people elect representatives to make laws for them. |
Revolution | An act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another. |
Commerce | The buying and selling of goods and service. |
Conquistador | A Spanish conqueror of the Americans in the sixteenth century. |
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. |