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Ch 3 vocab
ch 3 vocab
Term | Definition |
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mission | a settlement in native American territory designed to convert native American to christianty |
presdio | a Spanish fort that protects a mission |
catechism | is a set of questions and answers about cathlic belief |
Epicdemic | is the rapid spread of desease in a short time |
cede | to formally give up ownership of something |
transform | to change in charecter or condition |
establish | to settle to make a town |
friar | started mission members of church like a priest or pastor |
factor | part of what creates a result piece or contribution |
filibuster | a person who wages an unoficcial |
Philip Nolan | A horse trader |
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/her social status traditions the old way |
Augustine de Iturbide | the leader of the monarchist |
Achieve | collections of important public documents, such as constitutions and other public records |
anti-monarchist | a person who committed to the liberty and equality and who favored revolutions changes |
plan of Iguala | Mexico would become and independent nation |
Treaty of Cordoba | nation of Mexico born |
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 origanal Spanish settlements in Tx |
Abdicate | forced to give up a postion of power |
Erasmo Seguin | a guy who represented Coahuila and Texas |
Coahuila and Texas | the merge of Coahuila and Tx to maintain Spanish rule |
Empresario | the spanish word word for contractor a person who puts together bussiness deals |
Title | the legal right to own a piece of property |
Pecan point | the start of the U.S. settlers in Tx |
Moses Austin | An American business man that hoped to make a living off 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 it bit by bit to |