Texas Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. RUNAWAY SCRAPE – The mass flight of Texan civilians fleeing eastward away from Santa Anna's advancing forces.
  2. 3. INDEPENDENCE – What the delegates at Washington-on-the-Brazos formally declared from Mexico on March 2, 1836.
  3. 4. SAN ANTONIO – The historic Texas city where the siege of the Alamo took place.
  4. 5. SAN JACINTO – The decisive battleground where General Sam Houston's army defeated the Mexican forces in just 18 minutes.
  5. 6. MANIFEST DESTINY – The 19th-century belief that the United States was divinely ordained to expand across the North American continent.
Down
  1. 1. ALAMO – The former Spanish mission in San Antonio where a small band of Texans held out for 13 days against the Mexican army.
  2. 2. TREATY OF VELASCO – The document signed by captured Mexican General Santa Anna that effectively granted Texas its freedom.
  3. 3. GOLIAD MASSACRE – The tragic March 1836 execution of several hundred captured Texan soldiers under the orders of General Santa Anna.
  4. 4. CONSTITUTION – A fundamental legal document that outlines the structure, powers, and limits of a government.
  5. 5. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION – The formal assembly where Texas delegates gathered in 1836 to draft their new framework of government.