Texas History Vocabulary
Across
- 3. famous battle in Texas Revolution
- 5. — edge of settled land
- 6. — Spanish military fort
- 9. Commission — Texas agency regulating industries
- 13. — fight for independence
- 14. — soldiers on horseback
- 16. — settling new land
- 18. — to leave a group or union
- 23. — freeing enslaved people
- 25. — Southern states during Civil War
- 27. — rebuilding after Civil War
Down
- 1. — lawmaking group
- 2. — person who brought settlers to Texas
- 3. — Texas joining the U.S.
- 4. — growth of cities
- 7. of Texas — Texas as its own country
- 8. — farming
- 10. Drive — moving cattle long distances
- 11. — family farm or land claim
- 12. — rules for government
- 15. — Spanish religious settlement
- 17. — Mexican Texan
- 19. — official agreement
- 20. — growth of territory
- 21. — separation by race
- 22. Boom — rapid growth from oil discovery
- 24. — famous Texas oil strike
- 26. — raising livestock
- 28. Trail — major cattle trail