Across
- 2. President who sent army to guard Rio Grande
- 5. war that began in 1846 and lasted two years
- 8. General who helped surprise Mexican army in battle of San Jacinto
- 11. famous circuit-riding preacher who preached for fifty years
- 12. one who rules by force and allows his people little or no freedom
Down
- 1. Spanish mission where 187 men gathered and prepared to fight
- 3. last name of Mexican general dictator who was captured in the battle of San Jacinto
- 4. type of former mining town full of empty buildings where no one lives
- 6. famous frontiersman who led group of Tennesseans at Alamo
- 7. President who bought Florida for five million dollars
- 9. man who wrote the first American dictionary
- 10. what people rushed to California for in 1848