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| travois | a vehicle consisting of a platform and trailing poles used by Plains people |
| tanner | a person who makes hides into leather |
| milliener | a person who makes trims or sells women's hats |
| wheelwright | a person who makes a repairs wheels and wheeled vehicle |
| academy | a school that offers high school courses |
| denomination | a religious organization |
| veteran | a person with long experience in the Armed Forces |
| Heir | one who inherits or entitled to inherit property or money |
| capital | money invested in a business |
| speculator | a person who buys land to sell at profit when the price goes up |
| immigrant agent | one who helps bring people in a country to take up residence |
| land policy | the constitution of 1836. Heads of families who came to Texas between 1836 and October 1837 were entitled to 1208 acres of land provided 4,605 acres of land for evry head of a family living in Texas before March 2, 1836 |
| 2nd half of land policy | those who came between October 1837 and 1842 receivd 640 acres. the government didn't offer land to african-americans, native american families or to married women. congress also granted free land to veterans. |
| Homestead Act of 1839 | granted additional land to those who came to live in Texas, if you lived on the land protection for home and tools as a way of paying debt |
| W.S. Peters | an immigrant agent, helped settle people between Red River and Dallas, about 2,000 families;he was from Great Britain, successful agent |
| Henri Castro | served two grants in southwestern Texas;he brought 2,000 colonists a French Jew |
| German Immigrant Company | they brought Germans to Texas |
| Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels and John O. Meusebach | leader of German immigration |
| slavery | african americans made of 30% of Texas |
| John Neely Bryan | started settlement near the forks of the Trinity River: Dallas |
| Neal McLennan | settled on south Bosque River north of Waco |
| Jacob de Cordova & George B. Erath | surveyed the site for the town of Waco: made Waco |
| H. L. Kinney | built trading post at th, later developed into Corpus Christie mouth of the Nuecec River |
| Cash crop | cotton was leading cash crop in days of Republic |
| grain crop | chief grain crop was corn |
| Doña María del Carmel CALVILLO | most successful rancher in south Texas |
| Rev. Richard Salmon | first public school teacher in the Republic |
| Ruttersville College | first college of the Republic at Ruttersville blic opened in 1840 |
| Rosanna Osterman | in 1839 first Jewish service in Texas held in Galveston |
