Texas History Vocabulary

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