Gone to Texas: Anglo Settlement

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Across
  1. 4. People who volunteer to fight (when needed) in a local army – often to protect people on the frontier.
  2. 6. The official document that gives a person the right to own land – proof of ownership.
  3. 7. People who braved the dangers of the frontier and explored new territory – adventurers, skilled in living off the land.
  4. 8. People who are of English (not Spanish) background and heritage. They were usually Protestant (a type of Christian) and spoke English.
  5. 9. New and wild land to be settled.
Down
  1. 1. A large farm owned by a planter who usually grows one crop for sale. In Texas that crop was usually cotton.
  2. 2. A person who comes from another country in search of a better life.
  3. 3. Businessmen who brought colonists (settlers) to Texas in the 1820s – they got land grants and sold them for personal profit.
  4. 5. One of the first people to come into a new area.