Vocab

• Colonization


  The system of setting up colonies in a new place to affirm their claim
• Missions


  religious settlements
• Presidios


  a military outpost or a fort
• Friar


  a catholic priest who belongs in a religious order
• Convert


  to change your religious belifs
• Canal


  a human-made waterway
• Tejano


  a person of Mexican heritage who considers Texas home
• Catholic


  a religion that originates from Christianity
• Culture


  the traditions, belief, language, and arts of a particular group
• Mestizo


  a person of mixed Spanish and Native American Heritage
• Filibuster


  an individual who carries out unauthorized warfare against a country