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Colonization
Colonization of Texas
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| anglo | a white person of a European descent |
| colony | a country or area under the control of another country |
| commissiner | an agent or person representing an organization |
| empresario | a person given an land grant by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people who live there |
| immigration | The act of moving to a new country |
| 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 |
| conquistadors | a Spanish conqueror of the Americans in the seventeenth century |
| convert | to adopt new religious faith |
| hostile | very unfreindly |
| mission | a religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization |
| missonaries | people who share there religious faith with others , usually in other countries |
| presidio | a Spanish fort staffed by soldiers |
| squatters | people who settle on land without rights or tittles |
| Western Hemishere | the part of the world the includes the continents North and South America |
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