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Colonization
Colonization / Stephen F. 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 a country. |
empresario | A person given a land grant by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there. |
land grant | A contract that gives ownership of a plot of land. |
massacre | A killing of many people. |
militias | Groups of citizen soldiers. |
pneumonia | A serious lung infection that makes it hard to breathe. |
republic | A political 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. |
commerce | The buying and selling of goods and services. |
conquistador | A Spanish conqueror of the Americas 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. |