| A | B |
|---|
| empresarios | agents willing to recruit settlers to live in Texas |
| tejano | a Mexican settler in Texas |
| secularized | removal of religious ownership or control |
| santero | a carver of wooden statues or saints |
| rancho | a small farm |
| tallow | a substance made from the fat of animals and used to make candles and soap |
| cotton | crop the newcomers hoped to raise in Texas |
| 21 | number of missions in California by the 1820s |
| Mariano Vallejo | one of California's wealthiest landowners in Sonoma Valley |
| Manuel Armijo | last governor of New Mexico under Mexican rule |
| Moses Austin | an empresario who would be given land for bringing in 300 families from Louisiana to Texas |
| Stephen F. Austin | He brought in 1200 families by 1825 to Texas |
| Ignacio Galvan | He wrote Prophecy of Cuauhtemoc |
| Native Americans | most of the labor force in California and servants and workers on the rachos |
| Comanche | the reason many tejanos did not come to New Mexico |
| genizaros | a New Mexican term for Native Americans who no longer lived among their people |
| californios | Spanish-speaking settlers in California |
| rico | a wealthy individual |
| espanoles | Spaniards at the top of the social structure in New Mexico |
| mestizos | people of mixed Native American and Spanish ancestry |
| partido system | the plan by which a villager took care of a rico's sheep for a share of the newborn animals |
| way to move up the social ladder in New Mexico | military career, wealthy landowner who accepted Spanish culture and Catholic religion |
| nuevomexicanos | Spanish-speaking settlers in New Mexico |
| patrones | people who governed their communities and cared for the people |
| social structure in New Mexico | espanoles, mestizos, genizaros |
| Taos | place of an annual trading fair |
| two products which enriched California's rachers in 1800s | hides and tallow |
| along Brazos River | Moses Austin's land grant |
| three rules of Mexican to settle in Texas | no slaves, accept Catholic religion, Mexican citizenship |
| presidio | a fort |
