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3.1,3.2,3.3 vocab.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Mission | Native American designed to convert Native American to Christianty |
| Presidio | A spanish fort that protects a mission |
| Catechism | A set of questions and answers about cathlic beliefs |
| Epidemic | A rapid spread of disease in a short time |
| Cede | To formally give up ownership of something |
| Transform | Members of the clergy who belong to religious groups called orders |
| Establish | To settle; to make towns communities and homesteads in the area |
| Friar | Started missions; members of the church clergy such as priests and pastors |
| 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 horse trader who also chained up wild horses |
| James Wilkinson | A generd in the U.S army hired that was a double agent |
| Natural Ground Agreement | Agreement between Spain and the U.S that no soldiers would occupy this land |
| Class | Social Rank |
| 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 Hidalogo y Costilla | Priest from New Spain |
| Jose Bernardo Guterrez de Lara | A Mexican rebel |
| Battle of Medina | The most blood battle ever fought on Texas soil |
| James long | Organized a group of filibustering led another group to Texas |
| Eventually | Sometime later ;in the end |
| Pirate | A person who steals from the shipson sea |
| Republic | A nation in which voters elect representatives to make laws |
| Occupied | To take over or rule another country |
| Monarchist | A person who wanted to keep his or her high social status and traditions and wanted to limit changes and keep there old ways |
| Augustine de Iturbide | He fought Hidalgo, Morelos, and their followers |
| Achieve | To do or accomplish |
| Anti-Monarchist | In the early 1800s in New Spain, a person who was commitied to liberty and equality and who favored revolutionary changes in the government and the traditional social order |
| Plan of Iguala | It was a plan that stated the Mexico would become an independent nation |
| Treaty of Cordoba | Made the plan of Iguala official |
| San Antonio | Named after missionary Antonio. Texas most important mission town |
| La Bahia | Now called Goliad, TX. One of the last mission Presidio's |
| Nacogdoches | One of the three original Spanish settlements in Texas |
| Abdicate | To lose something |
| Erasmo Seguin | A settler from San Antonio |
| Coahuila and 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 start of U.S settlers in Texas |
| Moses Austin | An American business man that hoped to make a living off bringing settlers to Texas |
| 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 created with populating Texas with settlers |
| Agriculture | The work of preparing soil, producing crops, settlers and raising livestock |
| Collapse | To break down or fail completely |
| Militia | A group of armed citizens who serve as soldiers during an emergency |
| Grant | A possession such as land legally given to someone free or for very little money |
| Partnership | Associations of two are more people in a venture |
| San Felipe de Austin | The main town of Austin's colony where he did all of his business |
| Conduct | To direct or lead |
| Republic of Fredonia | Haden Edwards failed to attempt to free Texas from Mexico |
| Census | An official count of population of a region |
| Tejano | People with Mexican ancestry that lived in Texas |
| Martin de Leon | A Texan empresario that brought 400 families to Texas |
| Green Dewitt | The only Mexican Empresario that brought Mexican settlers to Texas |
| Minister | A person sent to another country to Represent their own country to the Goverment |
| Civilians | People who are not in the armed forces |
| Self-Goverment | Beliefs of taking an active role in making laws and decisions |
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