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Stephen F Austin TX
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Colony | a country of 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 religious beliefs |
| Empresarios | people given land grants by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there |
| Hostile | very unfriendly |
| Mestizo | people of mixed american Indians and European descent living in Mexico |
| Missions | a religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization |
| Missionaries | people who share their religious faith with others. usually in other countrys |
| 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 |