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colonization of Texa
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a country or area under the control of another country | colony |
| the buying and selling of goods and services | commerce |
| a Spanish conqueror of Americas in the sixteenth century | conquistadors |
| to adopt new religious beliefs | convert |
| very unfriendly | hostile |
| a people of mixed American Indian and European decent living in Mexico | mestidoz |
| a religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization | mission |
| people who share their religious faith with others | missionaries |
| a Spanish fort staffed by soldiers | presidio |
| people who settle on land without rights or titles | squatters |
| the part of the world that includes the continents of North and South America | western hemisphere |
| a white person of European decent | anglo |
| a written statement outlining the basic laws for a state | constitution |
| a person given a land grant by the Mexican government | empresario |
| the act of moving to a new country | immigration |
| a contract that gives ownership of a plot of land | land grant |
| a killing of many people | massacre |
| a group of citizen soldiers | militias |
| a serious lung infection that makes it hard to breathe | pneumonia |
| a political system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them | republic |
| an act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another | revolution |
| a Mexican-born Texan | tejano |
| people living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836 | texicans |
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