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3.123 vocab
Question | Answer |
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mission | a settlement in native American territory |
presidio | a Spanish fort that protect a mission |
catechism | a set of questions and answer about catholic |
epidemic | the rapid spread of the disease in a short time |
cede | to formally give up ownership of something |
transform | to change in character or condition |
establish | to settle : to make towns or communities and homestead in a area . |
friar | member of the church clergy like a priest or a pope. |
factor | part of what creates a result |
san Antonio | named after missionary , Texas most important mission town |
la Bahia | one of the last mission presidios |
Nacogdoches | one of the 3 original Spanish settlement in Texas |
abdicate | forced to give up a position of power |
Erasmo Seguin | a representative of Coahuila and Texas |
Coahuila and Texas | the merge of Coahuila and Texas to maintain Spanish rule |
Empresario | the Spanish word for contractor |
title | the legal right to own a piece of land |
pecan point | a loop in the red river |
Republic | citizen elect a representative to make laws |
occupied | to take over or rule another country |
monarchist | a person who wanted to keep his social status |
Augustine de Iturbide | leader of the monarchist that wrote plan of Iguala |
achieve | complete a goal |
anti monarchist | a person that was committed to liberty and equality |
plan of Iguala | it was a compromise between peninsulas and criollos |
treaty of Cordoba | made Mexico its own country |
Moses Austin | an American business that hoped to make a living off by bring settler to Texas |
sitio | a Spanish unit of measurement |
speculator | people who buy large area s |
Stephen f Austin | the father of Texas |
agriculture | the work of preparing the soil , producing crops |
collapse | to break down |
militia | a group of armed citizens |
grant | a possession such as land |
san Felipe de Austin | the main town of Austin colony |
conduct | to direct |
republic of Fredonia | Haden Edward failed attempt to free Texas |
census | an official count of the population in a region |
Tejano | people with Mexican ancestry that lived in Texas |
martin de Leon | the only Mexican empressario that brought Mexican settlers to Texas |
green Dewitt | a Texas empressario that brought 400 families to Texas |
minister | a person sent to another country to represent there home country |
civilians | a member of a nation |
self government | a government in which the people take an active role in making laws |