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Colonization Stack
Stephen F. Austin/ Colonization
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 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 |