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Colonization of TX
Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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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. |