| A | B |
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| empresarios | business people who brought in stettlers to occupy Texas |
| petition | a formal request, like the one Moses Austin wrote to bring families into Texas |
| capital | seat of government |
| title | a document that proves ownership of land |
| frontier | a term that means the edge of settlement |
| immigrants | persons who come into a country to settle |
| financial panic | an event that wiped out the family fortune of Moses Austin |
| militia | a type of army made up of citizens who serve only when necessary |
| squatters | people who settle on land without proof of ownership |
| speculators | people who buy land hoping its value will rise quickly so they can sell it for a profit |
