Across
- 4. Anglos and Tejanos fought as filibusters against Spain.
- 5. Wrote Shipwrecked in 1542
- 9. Promised Kentuckians good food supply and land
- 11. Established in 1718
- 13. Major reason the native population of Central Mexico dropped.
- 15. Started towns including San Antonio and Larado.
- 16. Father Hidalgo led the revolt against Spain for this.
- 17. Built by the Spanish to convert natives to Christianity.
- 19. One of the branch of the Mexican Federal Constitution
- 20. Mexican and Anglo settlers both wanted it.
- 21. empresario who started the first Anglo colony
- 22. Defeated by Cortes
Down
- 1. Created the first map of the Texas coast in 1519
- 2. Celebrated by Mexicans in 1821
- 3. Organized and expedition to fight Spanish rule and briefly declared Texas independent in 1813.
- 6. Coronado searched for the seven cities of gold
- 7. Spanish did NOT find it in Texas.
- 8. Introduced to Texas by Mexican settlers
- 10. The Mexican Federal Constitution of 1824 guaranteed this form of government.
- 12. empresario of Spanish-speaking Mexican settlement
- 14. Built their own fort on the ruins of Fort St. Louis
- 15. First name of the man who helped Stephen F. Austin gain approval for his Texas colony and represented Texas in the Mexican Congress, making him a key figure in opening Texas to settlement.
- 18. He established one of the first missions in East Texas.
