Causes of Texas Revolution Vocabulary

A large meeting of people who go to a place to make decisions as a group

• Meeting

• Convention

• Empresario

• Petition

A formal written request

• Empresario

• Federalists

• Request

• Petition

Provisional Government

• A permanent government

• Rebels

• A temporary government

Recruit

• Forced to join missions

• Volunteer to join a group

• A veteran of the military

• New workers in an area

The ​ (a)   believed that the power should be shared between the states and national government.

The ​ (b)   believed that power should be with the national government.

• Federalists
• Centralists
• States
• People

An official order of the government

• Petition

• Rebellion

• Decree

• Forfeit

A skirmish is -

• a major battle

• a minor conflict or battle

Match the following

• Consultation

• To excuse or free from a rule

• Repeal

• A formal statement of a decision, opinion, or plan by an official group

• Exempt

• To get rid of a law

• Resolution

• A meeting for deliberation or discussion

• Rebellion

• Resistance against the government or leader

A tax on goods brought in

• goods

• imports

• duty

• responsibility

A leader with absolute power

• King

• Empresario

• President

• Dictator