Spanish Vocab
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| Anglo | A white person European descent
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| Colony | A country or area under the control of another country: a group of people living there
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| Commissioner | An agent or person representing an organization
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| Disarm | To take someone's weapons
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| Economic Depression | A period in which an economy is affected by unemployment. Low output and poverty
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| Empresario | A person given a land grant by the the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people there
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| Entrepreners | People who who Start their own businesses
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| Executive | The branch of government responsible for carrying out the laws
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| Expelled | To be permanently kicked out of something
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| Fraternity | A social club for men
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| Immigration | The act of moving to a new country
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| Judicial | The branch of government responsible for enforcing the laws
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| Labor | A plot of land measuring 177 acres. Issued for planting crops.
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| Land grant | A contract that gives ownership of a plot of land
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| League | A plot of land measuring 4,428 acres issued for farming and grazing livestock
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| legislative | The branch of government responsible for making laws
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| Massacre | A killing of many people
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| Militias | Groups of citizen soldiers
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| Opponents | people who are against other people
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| Pneumonia | A serious long infection that makes it hard to breathe
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| Postmaster | A person in charge of a post office
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| Profit | To make money in a business
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| Rebellion | Open resistance to one's government
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| Repeal | To officially undo a law
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| Republic | A political system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them
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| Republic | A political system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them
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| Revolution | An act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another
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| Rituals | Acts or actions performed for a ceremony
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| Tejanos | A Mexican born Texan
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| Texians | people living in Mexican Texas between 1821
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| Commerce | The buying and selling of goods and services
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| Conquistador | A Spanish conqueror of the Americans in the sixteenth century
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| Covert | To Adopt new religious beliefs
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| hostile | very unfriendly
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| mestizos | people of mixed American Indian and European culture decent living in Mexico
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| Mission | a religious and military outpost established by the Spainish during colonization
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| Missionaries | people who share their religious with others. Usually in other countries
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| Presido | a Spanish fort staffed by soldiers
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| Provinces | districts or regions of a territory
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| Squatters | people who settle on land without rights or titles
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| Western Hemisphere | the part of the world that includes the continents of North and South America
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