Colonization
to send a group of settlers to (a place) and establish political control over it.
to add (an area or region) to a country, state, etc.
Republic
going across a continent
Abolition
Temperance
Tejano
annexation
to cause (a person or group) to become part of a different society, country, etc.
someone who lives in a building or on land without the permission of the owner
the practice of drinking little or no alcohol
Assimilate
a country that is governed by elected representatives and by an elected leader (such as a president)
Transcontinental
a person who is sent by one government to represent it
envoy
a Mexican-American inhabitant of southern Texas.
squatter
the act of officially ending or stopping something
