Texas History
Across
- 3. City near Spindletop
- 7. fierce tropical storm with winds of 74mph
- 8. a formal agreement between two nations
- 10. one country forcibly taking over another is called
- 11. Main cash crop in Texas
- 15. person who wanted to end slavery
- 16. inventor of the cotton gin
- 18. oily liquid found in the earth
- 21. body of land protecting coast from large body of water
- 24. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- 25. compared to land in the US, land in Texas was
- 26. battle where "Come and Take It" flag was flown
- 27. legislature that has two houses
- 28. formal changes to a document
- 30. farmer who works someone elses land and shares crops with them
- 31. this branch carries out laws
- 34. biggest cash crop after cotton
- 35. where Texas won their independence
- 38. to withdraw from something, like a country
- 39. public land that the state owned, where cattle grazed
Down
- 1. more products are available than in demand
- 2. to prevent the passage of a law
- 4. area of domestic policy Lamar wanted to improve
- 5. artificial way to supply land with water
- 6. people who took great risk drilling for oil
- 9. invention that created demand for oil
- 12. believe that the US had the duty to expand to the Pacific Ocean
- 13. Branch of Government that oversees the courts
- 14. people who work in the oil field
- 17. closing of port by positioning ships to keep people and supplies from coming in or out
- 19. president of US during Civil war
- 20. to isolate or separate to prevent the spread of disease
- 21. showed people owned cattle
- 22. where anglo settlers abandoned their homes
- 23. this branch interprets the laws
- 29. what Texas border was set by the Compromise of 1850
- 32. granting land from one country to another
- 33. 1900 hurricane killed 10,000 people
- 35. president of Mexico
- 36. the river Mexico believed was the border prior to Mexican war
- 37. Spanish cowboys