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Texas Revolution
Term | Definition |
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annexation | to take over a territory and make it apart to larger territory |
armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
cavalrymen | soldiers who fight on horseback |
constitution | a written statement outlining the basic laws for a state or country |
decloration | an announcement |
delegates | people who represent other people at a meeting |
export | to send goods at another country or state |
immigration | the act of moving to another country or state |
import | to bring goods into a country |
mission | a religious military outpost established by the Spanish colonization |
rancher | a person who raises livestock such as cattle or horses |
recruit | to select or get the services |
reinforcements | additional man used to build more strength |
siege | a military strategy in which troops surround an area and cut off outside access to a force to surrender |
surrender | to give up |
Tejanos | Mexican-born Texans |
Texians | people living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836 |
thriving | growing very well |
democracy | ability for the people to have a say in the government |
dictator | a person who has absolute power |
empresario | a person given a land grant to make a settlement and a recruit people to live there |
fronteirsmen | a person who lives on the frontier |
revolution | an act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another |