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