Week 15 Vocabulary

To overthrow a government and start a new system that  is more favorable to a group of people

• independence

• Battle of the Alamo

• revolution

• empresario

The act of Texans fleeing from their homes to stay safe from Santa Anna

• empresario

• independence

• revolution

• Runaway Scrape

Dictator who led the  

Mexican army and showed  no mercy

• Santa Anna

• Stephen F. Austin

• Sam Houston

• empresario

Texan forces were surrounded and defeated by the Mexican Army

• Battle of Goliad

• Battle of Gonzales

• Battle of the Alamo

• Battle of San Jacinto

A land agent or land contractor who brings people to new land

• explorer

• independence

• empresario

• revolution

Texican families were told to retreat from Santa Anna’s army

• Battle of the Alamo

• Battle of San Jacinto

• Battle of Goliad

• Battle of Gonzales

An important leader of the Texas Revolution

• empresario

• Battle of San Jacinto

• Battle of the Alamo

• Sam Houston

Not being ruled by another  country

• Battle of the Alamo

• independence

• empresario

• revolution

First battle of the Texas Revolution

• Battle of the Alamo

• Battle of San Jacinto

• Battle of Goliad

• Battle of Gonzales

A Texan who was respected  by many and considered the  “Father of Texas”; how he  was treated by Mexico  

convinced many that war  was unavoidable

• Santa Anna

• Stephen F. Austin

• Sam Houston

• William B. Travis