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Texas Revolution
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Democracy | ability for the people to have a say in government |
Dictator | a person who has absolute power |
Empresario | a person given a land grant by Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there |
Frontiersman | a person who lives on the frontier |
Tejano | a Mexican-born Texan |
Texians | people living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836 |
Annexation | to take over a territory and make it part of a larger territory |
Armmistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
Cavalrymen | soldiers who fight on horseback |
Constitution | a written statement outlining the basic laws for a state or country |
Declaration | an announcement |
Delegates | people who represent other people at a meeting |
Export | to send goods out of a country or state |
Immigration | the act of moving to a new country |
Import | to bring goods into a country or state |
Mission | a religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization |
Rancher | a person who raises livestock such as cattle or horses |
Recruit | to select or get the services of someone |
Reinforcements | additional men to build more strength |
Siege | a military strategy in which troops surround an area and cut off outside access to force a surrender |
Surrender | to give up |
Thriving | growing very well |