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Texas revolution
vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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democracy | ability or the people to have a say in government |
empresario | a person given a land grant by the Mexican government to make a settlement and recruit people to live there |
dictator | a person who has absolute power |
frontiersman | a person who live on the frontier |
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 |
cavalryman | 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 |
export | |
immigration | |
import | |
mission | |
rancher | |
recruit | |
reinforcements | |
siege | |
surrender | |
thriving |