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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| squatters | because they settled on lads they did not own . The federal government intended to survey the land and then sell large parcels to buy the land they occupied directly from the federal government |
| overlanders | used guidebooks to find their own way . The typical trip west took five to six months with wagon trains progressing about 15 miles ( 24 km ) per day . |
| squatter | someone who settles on public land under government regulation with the hope of acquiring titles to the land |
| overlander | someone who travels overland to the West . |
| secularized | or transferred from religious control to civil control the missions and then transferred the land to private ownership . |
| mestizos | persons of mixed European and Native American ancestry. |
| vaqueros | some of this middles class worked as vaqueros ( comwboys ) but many were skilled craftspeople. |
| empresario | a person who arranged for the settlement of Texas in the early 1800s . |