Unit 4: Texas Revolution Vocabulary

siege

• a navy blockade of a river

• a military blockade of a city or fort

revolution

• to overthrow a government by force

• when a new king to take power of a country after the old king dies

independence

• free from outside control

• free from citizens votes

republic

• a government ruled by a monarch

• a government where people elect a president

What is a decree?

• official order

• gathering of individuals to make an important decision

• ruler with total power

• military operation

What is a dictator?

• an elected official

• a king or queen

• ruler with limited power

• ruler with total power

What is a land agent that recruited settlers to live in Texas called?

• Vaquero
• Survey
• Anglo American
• Empresario

What are representatives, as to a convention?

• Delegates

• Runaway Scrape

• Decree

• Fortnite

• changing from one governmental structure to another

• political system in which power is shared between a national centralized government and a collection of smaller state governments

A tax on items imported or exported

• Duties

• Labor

• Hidalgo