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Settling texas/S.F.A
Vocabulary Game
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anglo | a white person of European descsent |
| colony | a country or area under control of another country: a group of people living there |
| constition | a written statement outlining the basic laws for a state or country |
| empresario | a person given a land grant by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there |
| land grand | a contract that gives ownership of a plot of land |
| massacre | a killing of many people |
| militias | groups of citizen soldiers |
| pneumonia | a serious lung infection that makes it hard to breathe |
| republic | a political system in which people elect representatives to make laws for them |
| revolution | an act of overthrowing and replacing one government with another |
| tejano | a Mexican-born texan |
| texians | people living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836 |
| commerce | the buying and selling of goods and services |
| conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americas in the 16th century |
| convert | to adopt new religious beliefs |
| mestizos | people of mixed American Indian and European descent living in Mexico |
| misson | a religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization |
| missonaries | people who share their religious faith with others, usually other countries |
| presidio | a Spanish fort staffed by soldiers |
| squatters | people who settle on land without rights or titles |
| western hemishere | the part of the world that includes the continents of north and south America |
| hostile | very unfriendly |
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