Fall Benchmark - People and events

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Across
  1. 3. - brought Mexican settlers to Texas and started town of Victoria
  2. 5. - religion required by settlers to Mexico
  3. 7. - indians that live in adobe in west texas
  4. 8. - indians that live in tipis and depend on the buffalo for survival
  5. 11. - battle in Texas where Spanish forces defeated the filibusters in Texas
  6. 13. - started Mexican fight for independence with his speech
  7. 14. - built by the Spanish to colonize Texas
Down
  1. 1. - speech hidalgo gave to start a revolution
  2. 2. - Spanish explorer sent to find cibola the cities of gold
  3. 4. - French explorer looking for mississippi but ended up in Texas
  4. 6. - Spanish explorer captured by Karankawa as one of the first Europeans to explore Texas
  5. 7. - first to map Texas Coastline in 1519
  6. 9. - helped austin find land for his colony
  7. 10. - brought first 300 Anglo-American settlers to Texas
  8. 12. - second most successful empresario and started town of Gonzales