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ch.3 vocab
3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 vocab.
Term | Definition |
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misson | an important assignment carried out for political, religious, or commercial purposes, typically involving travel |
presidio | a fortified military settlement. |
Cathelisim | the faith, practice, and church order of the Roman Catholic Church. |
epidimic | large numbers of persons living in a particular geographical area. |
cede | give up (power or territory). |
transform | to transfrom to catholicism |
establish | (of a church or religion) recognized by the government as the national church or religion. |
friar | a member of any of certain religious orders of men, especially the four mendicant orders |
factor | Part of what creates a result peice or contribution |
benefit | something that good for a person |
Philip Nolan | A horse trader who came to texas |
James Wikinson | He was a general of united states |
Natural Ground Agreement | Agreement beteen the U.S and Spanish that no soldiers will oqupie this land |
republic | a nation in which votes elect people to make laws |
Occupied | to take over onto rule another country |
Monarchist | A who wanted to limit change to keep thier social status |
Iturbide | leader of the Monarchist that wrote plan of iguala |
acheive | to do or accomplish |
plan of iguala | mexico would be an independent nation |
treaty of cordoba | spain agreed to accept the terms of plan of iguala |
San Antonio | named after missionary Antonio |
La bahia | now called Goliod Tx. one of the last mission-presidios |
Nacogdoces | one of the three original Spanish settlements in tx. |
adbicate | forced to give up power on position |
Coahuila & Texas | the merge to maintain Spanish rule . |
Peacon Point | The state of U.S. Setters in Tx. |
Erasmo Seguín | Seguin's most significant role was serving as Texas representative to the congress that wrote the Constitution of 1824 |
Empresario | a land agent or land contractor. |
title | give a name to |
moses austin | an american buissnus man that made a living off of bringing settelers to Texas. |
sitio | a place |
speculator | a person who forms a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence. |
stephen f. austin | the father of texas |
agriculture | the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products. |
collapse | to break down or fail completely |
milita | a military force that is raised from the civil population to supplement a regular army in an emergency. |
grant | a possion,such as land,legally given to someone for free |
partnership | an arrangement between two or more people to oversee business operations and share its profits and liabilities. |
san felipe de austin | the main town of austin colony |
conduct | to direct or lead |
repulic of fredonia | halden edward failed attempt to Texas from Mexico |
census | counts every resident in the United States |
tejano | people with mexican ansetory |
martin de leon | the only mexican empressaria |
green dewitt | a texan empressidio that brought 400 familes to Texas |
minister | a person who sent other people to another country to represent them |
civilans | a person not in the armed services or the police force. |
self goverment | government of a country by its own people, especially after having been a colony. |
class | showing stylish excellence. |
peninsulares | was a Spaniard born in Spain residing in the New World, Spanish East Indies, or Spanish Guinea. |
criollos | a person from Spanish South or Central America, especially one of pure Spanish descent. |
mestizo | in Latin America) a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent |
miguel | a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and key figure in the Mexican War of Independence |
jose | Gutiérrez was sent by Hidalgo to recruit along the Rio Grande. |
battle of medina | the Battle Medina is the largest, bloodiest battle in Texas history, and yet it's largely unknown |
james long | an American filibuster who led an unsuccessful expedition to seize control of Spanish Texas between 1819 and 1821. |
eventually | in the end, especially after a long delay, dispute, or series of problems |
priate | a person who attacks and robs ships at sea. |