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ch.3 vocab
3.1,2,3,4,5,6 vocab
Term | Definition |
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republic | a nation in which votes elect representatives to make laws. |
occupied | to take over or rule another country |
monarchist | a person who wanted to keep their high social status; keep the old ways |
agustine de iturbide | leader of monarchist; leader of Mexico |
achieve | to do or accomplish |
anti-monarchist | a person who was commited to liberty and equality and wanted revolutionary changes. |
plan of iguala | stated that Mexico would become and independent nation. |
treaty of cordoba | established Mexican independence from Spain |
San Antonio | Texas most important mission town |
la bahia | one of the last mission-presidios |
nacogdoches | one of the 3 original Spanish settlements in Tx |
abdicate | forced to give up a position of power |
erasmo seguin | helped to draft the Constitution of 1824 |
coahuila & texas | The merge of Coahuila & Texas to maintain spanish rule |
empresario | Spanish term for 'contractor'. |
title | the legal right to own a piece of property |
Pecan point | the start of U.S. settlers in Tx |
factor | part of what creates a result |
filibuster | a person who wages an unofficial war on a country |
benefit | something that is good for a person |
filip nolan | a horse trader for spain |
natural ground agreement | agreement between Spain and U.S. that no soldier would occupy this land |
peninsulares | born in Spain, best jobs, wealthy, first class. |
criollos | born in new Spain to spanish parents, second class |
mestizos | born to a spanish and indian parent. |
Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla | a person that wanted social class equality |
james wikinson | became the Territorial Governor of Louisiana after the Louisiana Purchase from the French |
class | assign or regard as belonging to a particular category. |
Jose Bernardo Guterrez de Lara | played a part in the Mexican revolution. |
battle of medina | the first Texas revolution |
james long | filibuster who led an unsuccessful expedition to seize control of Spanish Texas |
eventually | some time later |
pirate | a person who steals from ships |
mission | a settlement in native american territory to convert indians to christianity |
presidio | a spanish fort that protects a mission |
catechism | a set of questions and answers about catholic beliefs |
epidemic | the rapid spread of a disease in a short time |
cede | to formally give up ownership of something |
transform | to change in character or condition |
establish | to settle |
friar | members of the clergy who belong to religious groups called orders |
Moses Austin | |
sitio | |
speculator | |
Stephen F. Austin | |
Agriculture | |
collapse | |
milita | |
grant | |
partnership | |
San Felipe de Agustin | |
conduct | |
Republic of Fredonia | |
census | |
Tejano | |
Martin de Leon | |
Green Dewitt | |
minister | |
civilians | |
self-government |