Texas Colonization Vocabulary Quiz

When people fight against their old government and replace it with a new one

• Tejanos

• immigrants

• vaquero

• revolution

Mexicans who lived in Texas after the Mexican Revolution

• colony

• empresario

• Tejanos

• frontier

The edge of a settled area where land hat may belong to a different group of people begins

• frontier

• cash crops

• militia

• vaquero

A land agent who had an agreement with the Mexican government to bring in settlers

• revolution

• empresario

• militia

• cash crops

The Spanish word for "cowboy"

• empresario

• Tejanos

• vaquero

• Texians

A town or city built in a new land by a group of people who all came from another country

• colony

• frontier

• Texians

• immigrants

A group of volunteer soldiers

• revolution

• Texians

• empresario

• militia

People who leave their home to live in a new country

• Tejanos

• immigrants

• vaquero

• cash crops

Crops farmers would sell for money instead of growing to feed their family

• vaquero

• colony

• frontier

• cash crops

This is what the first Americans to live in Texas were called

• Texians

• Tejanos

• vaquero

• empresario