Texas Terms: SettlementOnline version Texas vocabulary on settlement and colonization in Texas by Dallas Historical Society 1 A settlement of people who have left one country to live in another. 2 A Christian religious settlement. 3 Spanish built military forts built to protect missions and towns from attacks. 4 A large farm that produced crops to sell. 5 A person who brought settlers into a colony, divided up the land, and enforced the law. 6 The farthest part of a settled country. 7 A crop that is grown to be sold at a market.
