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unit 3 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mission | a settlement in native america terriotory designed to convert them to christianity |
| presidio | a spanish fort that protacts a mission |
| catechism | a set of questios and answers about the catholic faith |
| epidemic | the rapid spread of a disease in a short period of time |
| cede | to formally give up ownership of something |
| transforn | to change in character or condition ` |
| establish | to settle |
| friar | started missions members of church clergy like a priest or a pastor |
| factor | part of what creates a result piece or contribution |
| filibuster | a person who wages an unofficial war on a contry |
| benefit | something that is good for a person |
| neutral ground agreement | agreement between spain and the eeuu that no solduers would occupy this land bettween texas and louisiana |
| class | social rank |
| peninsulares | wealthy upper class spanish born people living in new spain |
| criollos | born in new spain to 2spanish parents 2nd class citizen |
| mestizos | 1 spanish parent and 1 indian parent lower class citizen |
| battla of mediana | arredondo defeated telodo and 1400 filibusters it was the bloodiest battle on texas soil |
| james long | an angry u.s. citizen that organized a filibuster group that declared taxas free of spain |
| eventully | some time later in the end |
| pirate | a person who steeals from ships on the sea |
| republic | a national in which voters elect their officials |
| occupied | to take over or rule another country |
| monarchist | a person that wants to keep social order and classes in new spain loyal to the king and quee of spain |
| augustine de iterbide | leader of the monarchists fought against hidalgo and morelos to keep social classes |
| plan of iguala | iterbides compromise between the people of spain to declare mexico indepedent |
| treaty of cordoba | the official agreement between spain and mexicp where spain agreed to reconize |
| san antonio | named after missionary antonio one of the most important and populated mission towns |
| nacogdoches | one of the 3 original major spanish settlements home of sfasu |
| abdicate | forced to give up a position of power |
| empresario | spanish word for contractor a person who puts together a business deal |
| title | the legal right to won a piece of property |
| pecan point | loop in the red river start of the growing interest in texas by u.s settlers refuge point to avoid the justice by outlaws |
| moses | an american business man that hoped to bring u.s. settlers to spanish texas |
| sitio | a spanish unit of measuring land 4.428 acres |
| speculator | people who buy large pieces of land and resell portions to make money |
| stephen f austin | the father of texas son of moses carried out his father dreamand is credited with populating texas with settlrrs |
| agriculture | the work of preparing the soil producing crops and raising livestock |
| collapse | to break down or fail completely |
| militia | aqroup of armed citizens that serve as soldiers during emergency |
| grant | apossession such as land legally given to a person for free |
| partnership | associant of 2 or more people on a bussiness venture |
| conduct | to direct or lead |
| republic of fredonia | haden edwards failes attempt to free texas from mexico |
| census | an official count of the population in a region |
| tejano | people with mexican ancestry living in texas |
| minister | a person sent to another country to represent their home country to the goverment |
| self government | a government in which people take an active role in making laws and decisions |
| civilians | people who are not in the armed forces |
| achieve | to do or accomplish |
| anti monarchist | a person who is committed to liberty and equality and wants to get rid of the monarchy king and queen |