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ch. 3 vocab
3.1,3.2,3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mission | a settlement in native american territory designed to convert native americans to christianity |
| presidio | a spanish fort built to protect a mission |
| catechism | a set of questions and answers about catholic beliefs |
| epidemic | the rapid spread of disease in a short period of time |
| cede | to formally give up ownership of something |
| transform | to change |
| establish | to settle |
| friar | members of the clergy who belong to religious groups called orders. |
| factor | part of what creates a result;piece of contribution |
| filibuster | a person who wages an unofficial war on a country |
| benefit | something that is good for a person |
| Philip Nolan | a horse trader who claims to capture and trade wild horses for thye spanish government |
| James Wilkinson | Led a group to texas in the late 1800's |
| Natural Ground Agreement | Agreement between soain and the U.S. that no shouldier would occupy their land |
| Class | social rank |
| peninsulares | Born in spain, had best jobs, wealthy |
| criollos | Born in spain, 2nd class |
| mestizos | born to 1 spanish parent, 1 native american parent |
| Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla | A new spain priest from Dolores |
| Jose bernardo guterrez de lara | Helped Magee invade Texas |
| battle of medina | The battle that spanish general Joaquin de arrenado defeated toledos army |
| JAmes long | In june 1819, He led a group that eventually pushed into Texas |
| Eventually | Some time later; in the end |
| Pirate | a person who steals from ships on sea |
| republic | a nation in which voters elect representatives to make laws |
| Occupied | to take over or rule another country |
| monarchist | In the early 1800's in new spain a person who wanted to keep his or her social status and traditions and wanted tp limit changes and keep the old ways |
| Iturbide | the leader of the monarchists that wrote the Plan of Iguala |
| achieve | to do or accomplish |
| Anti-monarchist | in the early 1800's in new spain a person who was committed to liberty and equality and who favored revolutionary changes in government and in traditional social order |
| Plan of Iguala | stated that mexico would become an independent nation |
| Treaty of Cordoba | Spain agreed to accept the terms of the Plan of Iguala and to withdraw troops from Mexico |
| San Antonio | named after missionary Antonio- Texas most important mission town |
| La Bahia | Now called goliad, tx. one of the last mission-presidios |
| Nacogdoches | One of the 3 original settlements in tx. |
| abdicate | forced to give up a position of power |
| Erasmo Seguin | a settler that represented Coahuila and Texas to the Mexican Congress |
| Coahuila & Texas | The merge of Coahuila and Texas to maintain Spanish rule |
| Empresario | The spanish word for contractor a person who puts together business deals |
| Title | the legal right to own a piece of property |
| pecan point | The satrtof U.S. settlers |
| moses austin | an american buisness man that hoper to make a living off of bringing settlers to texas |
| sitio | a spanish unit of measure representing 4428 acres of land |
| speculator | people who buy large areas of land and sell them bit by bit |
| stephen f. austin | "the father of texas"-son of moses-carried out his fathers dream & is credited with populating texas with settlers |
| agriculture | The work of preparing the soil |
| collapse | to break down or completely fail |
| militia | a group of armed citizens |
| grant | a possesion such as land legally given to someone for free or very little money |
| partnership | associations of two or more people in a business venture |
| san felipe de austin | the main town of austins colony where he did all his business |
| conduct | to direct or lead |
| republic of fredonia | haden edwards failed attempt to free texas from mexico |
| census | an official count or population of a region |
| tejano | people with mexican ancestry that live in texas |
| Martin de leon | the only mexican empresario that brought mexican settlers to texas |
| green dewitt | a texan empresario that brought 400 familys to texas |
| minister | a person sent to another country to represent their home country to the government |
| civilians | people who are not in the armed forces |
| self government | a government in which people take an active roll in making laws and decisions |
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