Across
- 4. People who volunteer to fight (when needed) in a local army – often to protect people on the frontier.
- 6. The official document that gives a person the right to own land – proof of ownership.
- 7. People who braved the dangers of the frontier and explored new territory – adventurers, skilled in living off the land.
- 8. People who are of English (not Spanish) background and heritage. They were usually Protestant (a type of Christian) and spoke English.
- 9. New and wild land to be settled.
Down
- 1. A large farm owned by a planter who usually grows one crop for sale. In Texas that crop was usually cotton.
- 2. A person who comes from another country in search of a better life.
- 3. Businessmen who brought colonists (settlers) to Texas in the 1820s – they got land grants and sold them for personal profit.
- 5. One of the first people to come into a new area.