Mexican National Vocabulary
Exploration and Early Vocabulary
Mexican National 1
Exploration and Early
Mexican National 2
100

Work of preparing the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock

Agriculture

100

A settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people in the area

Mission

100

What was the role of an empresario in Texas

Responsible for settling people in Texas

100

What ended the Spanish rule in New Spain?

Treaty of Cordoba

100

On his sick bed, what was one of Moses Austin's dying requests?

His son to continue settling people in Texas

200

Mexican government would grant people a piece of land

Title

200

A military post or guarded settlement in an area under Spanish control

Presidio

200

Native group moved inland and found American settlers in their land

Karankawa

200

Who benefited from the plan of Iguala?

Conservatives

200

Who are the “Old Three Hundred”?

First families of Austin’s colony in Texas

300

Buys large area of land and sells the land bit by bit

Speculators

300

A person who wages an unofficial war on a country

Filibuster

300

Who will most likely say this "Carved “GTT” on our front door after purchasing 10 acres"

A. Spanish farmer

B. Anglo farmer

C. Anglo merchant

B. Anglo farmer

300

Father of Mexican Independence

Miguel Hidalgo

300

DeWitt and officials did not realize that his grant included the land of De Leon

Jane Long

400

Spanish word for contractor. Responsible for settling people in Texas

Empresario

400

People who wanted to limit changes and keep the old ways

Conservatives

400

Who will help Moses Austin influence the governor in order to let him settle families from the United States to Texas?

Baron de Bastrop

400

What did King Ferdinand promise the people of Spain he would do in order to be crowned and take the throne?

Constitution of 1812

400

How could having American settlers in Texas help the Spanish?

They could create a buffer zone between the Spanish and Natives and keep filibusters out

500

Armed citizens who serve as soldiers

Militia

500

Formally give up ownership

Cede

500

When Moses Austin's lead business crumbled in the U.S. he asked Spain for help. What is Spain going to give him and make him do? 

Was given a lead mine and had to get 30 families to settle in Louisiana

500

Who was the leader of the conservative faction in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution?

Agustin de Iturbide

500

DeWitt was trying to sell land but there was an issue

DeWitt and officials did not realize that his grant included the land of De Leon