Mexican National Chapter 7

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Across
  1. 2. payment to a conquering power
  2. 5. United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for about $15 million
  3. 6. opened the port of New Orleans to American ships and made generous contributions of weapons, clothing, money, and medical supplies to American troops.
  4. 7. was a conflict between the powerful nations of Great Britain and France for control of North America.
  5. 12. an individual who carries out unauthorized warfare against a foreign country
  6. 13. freedom
  7. 14. an agreement among countries to work together
  8. 16. 1819 the United States and Spain signed a Treaty ending the boundary dispute.
  9. 17. Treaty that ended the seven years war
  10. 20. Father Miguel Hidalgo spoke to a crowd of people at his church on September 16, 1810, in Dolores, Mexico. The speech sparked the Mexican Revolution against Spain.
  11. 21. had an army with an impressive-sounding name—the Republican Army of the North.
  12. 22. a government in which the people elect representatives to make governmental decisions
  13. 23. cruel use of power
Down
  1. 1. offered the war-weary people of Mexico three guarantees and a plan for government.
  2. 3. a person who follows another
  3. 4. In August 1813 the Republican Army battled Spanish forces south of San Antonio near the Medina River
  4. 8. to block someone from being able to use or take part in something
  5. 9. referring to an area that does not belong to any country
  6. 10. traveled to Washington, D.C., in 1811 to ask the United States for help.
  7. 11. Spanish word for “inspector” Rubí’s assignment was to tour the frontier provinces and recommend a course of action.
  8. 15. The last of the filibusters who tried to take Texas away from Spain was James Long of Natchez, Mississippi.
  9. 18. a Spanish term for cowboy
  10. 19. absolutely necessary