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3.1, 3.2, 3.3 vocab.
3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mission | Native American territory designed to convert Christinanity to Native Americans. |
| Presidio | A Spanish fort that protects a mission |
| Catechism | A set of questions answers about catholic beliefs |
| Epidemic | The rapid spread of diseases 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, communities and homesteads in an area |
| Friar | Started missions; members of church clergy like a priest or pastor |
| Factor | Part of what creates a result; piece of contribution |
| Filibuster | A person who wages on war on a country |
| Benefit | Something that is good for a person |
| Philip Nolan | A horse trader claimed he was gonna capture and train wild horses |
| James Wilkerson | A general in the US army hired as a double agent |
| Natural Ground Agreement | Agreement between Spain and US that no soldiers would watch land |
| Class | Social rank, wealthy, poor, middle class |
| Peninsulares | Wealthy, Spanish born, upper class people |
| Criollos | Born in new Spain to Spanish parents |
| Mestizos | Born to one Spanish parent and one Native American parent |
| Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla | A priest from New Spain |
| Jose Bernardo Guterrez de Lara | A Mexican rebel |
| Battle of Medina | Bloodiest battle fought on TX soil |
| James Long | Organized a group of filibustering in 1819 led another group of TX |
| Eventually | Some time later: in the end |
| Pirate | A person who steals from ships on sea |
| Republic | A nation in which votes elect representives to make laws |
| Monarchist | In the early 1800's in New Spain, a person who want to keep his or her high social status and traditions and wanted to limit changes and keep the old ways |
| Occupied | To take over or rule a country |
| Augustine de Iturbide | The leader of the monarchist |
| Achieve | Collections of important public documents, such as conditions and other public record |
| Anti-Monarchist | In the early 1800's of New Spain, a person who was committed to liberty and equality and who favored revoluntionary changes in government and in the traditional social order |
| Plan of Iguala | Compromise between Penisulares and criollos |
| Treaty of Cordoba | This marked the beginning of Mexico's independence from Spain, Now TX; would be ruled by new Mexican government |
| San Antonio | Named after missionary Antonio- Tx most important mission town |
| La Bahia | Now called Goliad, TX one of the last mission- presidios |
| Nacogdoches | One of the original Spanish settlement in TX |
| Abdicate | No longer being in charged of leading |
| Erasmo Seguin | A settle of San Antonio was named Erasmo Seguin |
| Coahuila and Texas | Erasmo Seguin represented Coahulia and Texas to the Mexican Congress |
| Empresario | The Spanish word for " Contractor", a person who puts together businesses deals |
| Title | Legal right to own a piece of property |
| Pecan Point | The start of U.S. settlers in TX |
| Moses Austin | An American business man that hoped to make a living off of bringing settlers to TX |
| Sitio | A Spanish unit of measure representing 4,428 acres of land |
| Speculator | People who buy large areas of land and try to sell the land bit by bit to others |
| Stephen F. Austin | "The father of Texas"-son of Moses, carried out his fathers dream and is credited with populating TX with settlers |
| Agriculture | The work of preparing soil, producing crops, raising livestock |
| Collapse | To break down or fail completely |
| Militia | A group of armed citizens that served as soldiers during an emergency |
| Grant | A possession, such as land, legally given to someone for free or for very little money |
| Partnership | Associations of 2 or more people in a business venture |
| San Felipe De Austin | The main town of Austin's Colony where he did all his business |
| Conduct | to direct or lead land |
| Republic of Fredonia | Haden Edwards failed attempt to free TX for Mexico |
| Census | An official count on the population of the region |
| Tejano | People with Mexican ancestry that lived in Texas |
| Martin de leon | The only Mexican empresario that bought Mexican settlers to TX |
| Green Dewitt | A Texan empresario that bought 400 families to TX |
| 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 the people take an active role in making laws and decisions |
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