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ch.3 vocab.

3.1,3.2,3.3 vocab.

TermDefinition
Mission A settlement in native Americans territory for converting Indians to Christianity.
Presidio A Spanish fort that productid a mission.
Catechism A set of questions and answers about catholic beliefs.
Epidemic The rapid spread of disease.
Cede To formally give up ownership of something.
Transform To change in character or condition.
Republic A nation in which voters elect representations to make laws.
Occupied To take over or rule another country.
Monarchist In the early 1800s in new Spain, a person who want to keep there social stats.
Augustine De Iturbide The leader of the monarchists.
Achieve To do or accomplish.
Anti-Monarchist Deeply committed to both liberty and equality.
Plan of Iguala The plan that Mexico would become independent.
Treaty of Cordoba People who made Mexico officially independent.
San Antonio Named after missionary Antonio.
La Bahia Now called Goliad, TX one of last mission-presidios.
Nacogdoches One of the original Spanish settlements in TX.
Abdicate To give up something.
Erasmo Seguin A settler of San Antonio he took up Texas under the new colonization.
Coahuila & Texas The merge of Coahuila & TX to maintain in Spanish rule.
Empresario Were responsible for settling Texas.
Title A legal right to own a piece of property.
Pecan Point The first people known to settle there was Caddo Indians.
Moses Austin was an important early empresario. He received a contract in 1820 to settle family's Texas.
Sitio A military blockade or bombardment of an enemy town or position to force its surrender.
Speculator someone who makes a risky business deal that could lead to large profits.
Stephen F. Austin Was the son of Moses Austin and the most to prominent empresario of Mexican Texas. He brought more than 1,000 families to Texas in the 1820s.
Agriculture Farm work; preparing land, sowing crops, or raising livestock.
Collapse To break down or fail completely.
Militia A group of armed citizens who serve as soldiers in an emergency.
Grant A possession, such as land, legally given to a person.
Partnership An agreement under which multiple people go into business together.
San Felipe de Austin Town on the Brazos river founded by Stephen F Austin.
Conduct To direct or lead.
Republic of Fredonia The name Haden Edwards gave to Texas after he declared in an independent nation in 1826.
Census An official count of population.
Tejano People with Mexican ancestry that lived in Texas.
Martin de Leon Was the only Mexican emparsario to establish a settlement in Texas. He named the settlement Guadalupe Victoria.
Green Dewitt Was a Texas empresario who started his own settlement in 1825. He brought 400 families to the area of the Lavaca, San Marcos, and Guadalupe rivers.
Minister A person who sent to another country to represent his or her government.
Civilians Not a member of the military or police force.
Self-Government A government in which the people take an active role in making laws and decisions.
Factor Part of what creates a result, piece or contribution.
Filibuster A person who wages an unofficial war on a country.
Benefit Something that is good for a person.
Philip Nolan A house trader.
James Wilkinson A general in U.S army as a double agent.
Natural Ground Government No troops could occupy land in till the border conflict was resolved.
Class Social rank.
Peninsulares Highest class in society and born in Spain.
Criollos The second highest class in society and born in new Spain.
Mestizos The class below criollos born to one Spanish and one Indian parent.
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla
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