doubled the size of the united states
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The Anglo colonists, as the name implies, were people from the United States who were mostly of British descent. They can be divided in two groups: those who came from the neighboring Louisiana, and expanded the slave plantations in Eastern Texas, and those who came from Appalachia, and founded small farms in Central Texas.
The Tejanos were the original colonists of Spanish descent, who came from other parts of Mexico. They spoke Spanish, were catholic, and had ties to Latin America. However, they were also part of the independece movement in Texas, but many of them opposed the annexation of the state to the United States (this was supported en masse by the Anglos for obvious reasons).
They influence the courts file amicus curiae briefs, presenting an argument in favor of a particular issue. Sometimes lobbyists even file lawsuits against the goverment or other parties.
Reparations, a levy on a defeated country forcing it to pay some of the war costs of the winning countries. Reparations were levied on the Central Powers after World War I to compensate the Allies for some of their war costs. They were meant to replace war indemnities which had been levied after earlier wars as a punitive measure as well as to compensate for economic losses. After World War II the Allies levied reparations principally on Germany, Italy, Japan, and Finland.
