Texas History

2. a formal meeting held for a special purpose.
5. a leader with complete control over the government.
10. the purchase of the Louisiana Territory in 1803 by President Thomas Jefferson.
11. a person who is among the first of a group of people to settle in a new region.
12. Mexican people living in Texas.
13. a crop that is grown to be sold for money rather than to be used on the farm where it is grown.
14. a word that United States settlers used to describe land on the edge of their settlement.

1. people who are able to speak two languages.
3. people who were given a large piece of land by the government and allowed to sell the land to settlers.
4. to trade things for other things without using money.
5. a person who is chosen to speak for a group.
6. money people must pay to a government.
7. growing only enough food to live, not to settle.
8. ranch workers from Mexico who became the first cowboys.
9. a home dug out of the side of the hill.