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Stephen F Austin TX
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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 |