1. Colonization Vocabulary
7th Period

2. Vocabulary Development: Frayer Model
Definition: own words
Characteristics
WORD
Examples
Non-examples

3. Group: Michael and Christian
Definition: a Spanish person who worked as a mayor, sheriff, and judge
Characteristics: high authority
alcalde
Examples:
Oscar Trevino
Judge
Principal
Non-Examples:
President Obama

4. Group: Trevor
Definition: a settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people of the area
Characteristics: sharing of religion, church, cross
mission
Examples:
Spanish Church
Non-Examples:
French
School
neighborhood

5. Group: Jared and Daniel
Definition: a military bunker or fortress of settled area
Characteristics: protection and defense
presidio
Examples:
Air Force base
Military base
Non-Examples:
Home
School
church

6. Group: Caleb and Tanner
Definition: a person who makes all arrangements to bring settlers to a colony
Characteristics: kind of a like an explorer, land agent
empresario
Examples:
La Salle
Missions
Stephen F. Austin
Non-Examples:
Cabeza de Vaca

7. Group: Daniel and Josiah
Definition: a livestock herder or cowboy
Characteristics: Spanish Cowboy (sombrero, chaps)
vaquero
Examples:
Woody from Toy Story
Cattle Rancher
Non-Examples:
Cowboys football team
Coyotes
farmers

8. Group: Steven and Hunter
Definition: an adventurer who engages in a private rebellious activity in a foreign country
Characteristics: rule breaker
filibuster
Examples:
Spy
Revolutionary War
9/11
Non-Examples:
Law abiding citizens
tourist

9. Group: Chris and Parker
Definition: a person who comes to a country and settles from another one
Characteristics: country to country
immigrant
Examples:
Pilgrims
Mexicans
Non-Examples:
City to city/state to state

10. Group: Brittney, Phoebe, and Macy
Definition: a person of Mexican descent living in Texas
Characteristics: Mexican roots or ancestry
Tejano
Examples:
Selena
Some drug dealers
Brittney
Jeny
Non-Examples:
Phoebe
Macy
Justin Beiber
Oprah Winfrey
Barack Obama

11. Group: Kyndall and Jeny
Definition: a land claimed that is controlled by a distant nation
Characteristics: foreign control
colony
Examples:
Spain and Mexico in the 1600s
13 Original Colonies
Non-Examples:
United States and Puerto Rico

12. Group: Caleb and Tanner
Definition: a nation in which people elect representatives to govern them
Characteristics: voice/vote - Congress
Republic
Examples:
Republic of Congo
U.S.
Star Wars Jedi Council
Non-Examples:
The Empire from Star Wars
Cuba
Korea

13. Group: Jared and Daniel
Definition: to surrender by agreement or by a treaty
Characteristics: action
cede
Examples:
-WWII
-compromise/treaty
Non-Examples:
-Libya
-Iraq
-withholding

14. Group: Josiah and Daniel
Definition: a formal written request
Characteristics: a document/signatures
petition
Examples:
-a treaty
-to run for office
Non-Examples:
-a letter/

15. Group: Trevor Definition: proof of ownership
Characteristics: a document (legal)
Land title
Examples:
-receipt
-name on paper or contract
Non-Examples:
-Bill of Rights
-Constitution

16. Group: Jeny and Kyndall
Definition: to leave home to settle somewhere else
Characteristics: moving/action
emigrate
Examples:
-leaving home for college
-missionary
Non-Examples:
-permanent dweller

17. Group: Hunter and Steven
Definition: a military force that is not professional
Characteristics: untrained/volunteer
militia
Examples:
-men in the Alamo
-Somali pirates
-terrorists
Non-Examples:
-Military, army, air force, etc. -