Texas History Texas Revolution Vocabulary

A person (usually American) businessman who moved to Texas for land grants

• Empresario

• Filibuster

• Governor

• Dictator

Which was NOT a requirement for empresarios who immigrated to Texas

• They must become Mexican citizens

• They must convert to Catholicism

• They must have a useful skill or job

• They must bring enslaved people

A white, English-speaking person

• Anglo

• Tejano

• Hispanic

• Texan

An Mexican person born in Texas

• Tejano

• Anglo

• Dictator

• Governor

A war in which the people of a country fight to overthrow their own government

• Revolution

• Civil

• Classic

• Battle

A war is made up of lots of individual fights between each side. These individual fights are called ________

• battles

• siege

• casualty

• all answers are correct

Federalists believe...

• one person should have all the power

• only states should have power

• only the federal government should have power

• states and federal governments should share power

Anglo and Tejano settlers in Texas who worked together to fight for independence

• Texians

• Tejanos

• Texicanos

• Teximexipopikins

A leader who rules with absolute power - not listening to the will of the people or following the constitution

• dictator

• monarch

• king or queen

• president

If you want to create your own country, you would write a _____ to set up the rules like how the country would run and who would be in charge

• constitution

• treaty