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Colonization
Colonization / Stephen F. Austin
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anglo | a white person of European descent |
| colony | a country area under control of another country; a group of people living there |
| constitution | a written statement outlining 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 |
| immigration | the act 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 breath |
| republic | a political system 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-born Texan between 1821 and 1836 |
| commerce | the buying and selling of goods and services |
| conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americans sixteenth country |
| convert | to adopt new religious beliefs |
| hostile | very unfriendly |
| mestizos | people of mixed American Indian and European descent living in Mexico |
| missionaries | people who share their religious faith with others, usually with other countries |
| presidio | a Spanish fort staffed by soldiers |
| squatters | people who stand on land without rights or titles |
| Western Hemishpere | the part of the world that includes the continents of North and South America |
| mission | a religious and military out post established by the Spanish during colonization |