Across
- 3. Colonel Mackenzie's troops set fire to the Native American villages in the canyon
- 4. battle took place on September 8, 1863, Confederate victory
- 8. made great efforts to help African Americans receive equal rights
- 13. Treaty where Several Native American nations agreed to live on reservations
- 14. settlers obtained land by living on it and improving it
- 16. industry involved with the wildcatters
- 21. ended the Mexican War, Texas gave up its claim to Santa Fe
- 22. Native American group that has lived near El Paso for 300 years
- 23. This technology allowed the growth of railroads in the 1800s
- 24. Kiowa chief known for his speeches
- 25. The political parties most Texans joined
- 26. Amendment where African Americans get the right to vote
Down
- 1. African American soldiers of the American West
- 2. when a country/territory becomes part of another country
- 5. northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction
- 6. Main issue during the Civil War
- 7. first governor of Texas
- 9. effect, the office of the governor was weakened
- 10. series of battles fought along the Red River
- 11. the day that slaves learned they were free in Texas
- 12. Appointed provisional governor of Texas
- 15. Best biography to provide information concerning Reconstruction
- 17. it was the site of the first big oil well in that state
- 18. the earliest Cattle trail used
- 19. battle fought after the Civil War had ended
- 20. General for the Confederacy during the Civil War
- 21. New Braunfels was a settlement founded by whom?