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Colonization
Term | Definition |
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Anglo | a white person of European descent |
colony | a country or area under the control of another country; a group of people living there |
constitution | 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 |
immigration | the act of moving to a new country |
land grant | 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 sixteenth century |
convert | to adopt new religious beliefs |
hostile | very unfriendly |
meztizos | people of mixed American Indian and European descent living in Mexico |
mission | a religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization |
missionaries | people who share their religious faith with others ,usually in other countries |
presidio | a Spanish fort staffed by soldiers |
squatters | people who settle on land without rights or titles |
Western Hemisphere | the part of the world that includes the continents of North and South America |