Unit 3 Vocab Check

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Empresario

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Spanish term for a land agent who settled families in TX.

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Immigration

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Travel into a country for permanent residence.

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Social Class

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A division of society based on social and economic status.

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Constitution

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A body of fundamental principles governing a state or organization.

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Independence

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when a country or region gains political freedom from outside control

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Revolution

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a forcible overthrow of a government, in favor of a new system

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Anglo-American

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an American born in England or of English ancestry

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Peninsulares

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Spaniards born in Spain who held the highest positions of power in the New World.

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Creoles

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a Spaniard born in the Americas

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Mestizos

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a person of mixed Spanish and Native American heritage