Texas Revolution

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Across
  1. 3. people of Spanish heritage who consider Texas their home
  2. 5. last major battle of the Texas Revolution
  3. 8. Mexico prohibited this of settler living in Texas
  4. 10. city where the Alamo is located
  5. 12. general of the Texas army and first president
  6. 14. general and president of Mexico
  7. 15. almost the number of years Texas remained an independent republic
  8. 18. Spanish land that bordered the United States territory of Louisiana
  9. 19. original colonizers of Texas
  10. 20. cash crop that attracted settlers to Texas
  11. 21. famous frontiersman that died at the Alamo
  12. 22. granted huge tracts of land by Spain to recruit settlers
  13. 23. survivor ordered by General Santa Anna to tell about the Alamo
  14. 24. attracted the first Texas settler families between 1821 and 1827
  15. 25. achieved its independence from Spain in 1821
Down
  1. 1. restricted by Mexico in 1829
  2. 2. name of Davy Crockett's rifle
  3. 4. adding Texas to the United States
  4. 6. name for the republic of Texas
  5. 7. number of survivors at the Alamo
  6. 8. dashed through enemy lines at the Alamo to seek aid
  7. 9. Texans required to practice this faith to settle
  8. 11. headed the 183 volunteers at the Alamo
  9. 13. number of days of the the defenders of the Alamo held out
  10. 16. scrawled on doors to indicate Texas families went to Texas
  11. 17. massacre by Mexican forces of more than 300 Texans
  12. 24. Spanish mission and site of the greatest standoff in American history