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Texas Revolution
Vocab Test
Term | Definition |
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democracy | ability for the people to have a say in government |
dictator | a person who has absolute power |
empresario | a person given a land grant by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there |
frontiersman | a person who lives on the frontier |
recruit | to select or get the services of someone |
surrender | to give up |
Tejano | a Mexican-born Texan |
Texians | people living in Mexican Texas between 1821 and 1836 |
annexation | to take over a territory and make it part of a larger territory |
armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
cavalrymen | soldiers who fight on horseback |
constitution | a written statement outlining the basic laws for a state or country |
declaration | an announcement |
delegates | people who represent other people at a meeting |
export | to send goods out of a country or state |
immigration | the act of moving to a new country |
import | to bring goods into a country or state |
mission | a religious and military outpost established by the Spanish during colonization |
rancher | a person who raises livestock as cattle or horses |
reinforcements | additional men used to build more strength |
siege | a military strategy in which troops surround an area and cut off outside access to force a surrender |
thriving | growing very well |