Exploration and Settlement of Texas Vocabulary

Act of traveling to a new place

• settlement

• exploration

• colonization

a spanish military post or guarded settlement

• colonization

• exploration

• presidio

a settlement founded to spread Christianity

• mission

• presidio

• migration

moving from one region to another

• migration

• colonization

• exploration

a settlement of people in new territories

• migration

• exploration

• colonization

trading for valuable goods

• expansion

• competition

• economic opportunity

expanding territory to gain more power

• competition

• expansion

• economic opportunity

gaining control over land, trade, and resources

• competition

• expansion

• economic opportunity

the main reason explorers came to Texas

• power

• god, glory, and gold

• both answers

a spanish soldier

• ruler

• conquistador

• explorer