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Colonization Stack
Stephen F. Austin/ Colonization
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 country |
| Empresario | a person given a land grant by 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 |
| Militas | groups of citizen soliders |
| Pneumonia | a serious lung infection that makes it hard to breathe |
| Republic | a political system in which people elect representatives |
| 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 or services |
| Conquistadors | Spanish conquistadors of the Americas in sixteenth century. |
| Convert | to adopt new religious belifs |
| Hostile | very unfriendly |
| Immigration | the act of moving to a new country |
| 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 soliders |
| Squatters | people who settle on land without rights or titles |
| Western Hemisphere | the part of the world that includes continents of North and South America |