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  1. 1. General who led the march from Veracruz to Mexico City
  2. 5. Aztec school for nobles to learn leadership and religion
  3. 7. Aztec artificial floating garden built on a lake
  4. 9. Declared himself Emperor Agustin I of Mexico
  5. 10. Fertile region where Olmec Maya and Aztec civilizations grew
  6. 12. Treaty of blank Hidalgo ended the Mexican American War
  7. 13. Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico
  8. 14. Battle of San blank won by Houston in 18 minutes
  9. 18. Mexico abolished this in 1829 angering Texan settlers
  10. 19. The blank of Texas by the United States in 1845
  11. 21. Political faction that opposed Juarez in the Reform War
  12. 23. The Three Years War was also called the War of blank
  13. 24. Castle whose fall was a major turning point in the war
  14. 29. blank Destiny the ideological drive for US westward expansion
  15. 31. Civilization famous for carving giant stone heads
  16. 33. Aztec school for commoners to learn military skills
  17. 34. First name of Mexico 35 year authoritarian ruler
  18. 35. Father of Mexican Independence
  19. 36. President who said Mexico shed blood on American soil
  20. 37. When a powerful country controls another land and its people
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  1. 2. US general who won at Monterrey and Buena Vista
  2. 3. Ancient civilization of the Yucatan Peninsula
  3. 4. State included in the Mexican Cession along with California
  4. 6. City where Mexico first Constitution was issued in 1814
  5. 8. Indigenous people who allied with Hernan Cortes
  6. 10. Independence hero titled Servant of the Nation
  7. 11. River Mexico claimed as the rightful Texas border
  8. 15. Texas fort besieged by Santa Anna with no quarter
  9. 16. Philosophy that guided the Cientificos group during Porfiriato
  10. 17. Maya books made from the inner bark of fig trees
  11. 19. Another name for the Mexica people of Tenochtitlan
  12. 20. Home state of both Porfirio Diaz and Benito Juarez
  13. 22. Plan de blank was Diaz revolt against Lerdo de Tejada
  14. 25. Battle of blank last Aztec resistance during the Conquest
  15. 26. Mexico's first president of African descent in 1829
  16. 27. Plan de La blank was Diaz first revolt against Juarez
  17. 28. Mexican blank approximately 55 percent of territory lost in 1848
  18. 30. Territory that became independent from Mexico in 1836
  19. 32. Liberal president known as El Benemerito de las Americas
  20. 38. Key Cientifico economic adviser in the Porfiriato