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Colonization of TX
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anglo | A white person of European descent |
| Constitution | A writen statement outlining the basic laws for a state or country |
| Land grant | A contract that gives owner ship of a plot of land |
| Massacre | A killing of many people |
| Militias | Groups of citizen soldiers |
| Pneumonia | A serious lung infection that makes it to breathe |
| Republic | A pulitical system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them |
| Revolution | An act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another |
| Tejano | A Mexican- born Texan |
| Texians | People living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836 |
| Colony | A country or area under the control of another country: a group of people living there |
| Empresario | A person given land grant by a Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there. |