Mexican National Era Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. – An official count of the people living in an area.
  2. 6. – To accept formally.
  3. 9. – Someone who believes in sharing power between the states and the national government.
  4. 12. – A form of government run by elected representatives; a government in which the people elect representatives to make governmental decisions.
  5. 13. – The money, property, and goods a bride’s family gives her groom upon marriage.
  6. 14. – Freedom.
  7. 15. – Someone who travels to unclaimed territory to settle.
  8. 16. – The word for land agent whose job it was to bring new settlers into an area.
  9. 17. – A group of citizens acting as a military force.
  10. 19. – To bring things into another country.
  11. 20. – Someone who believes power should be concentrated in the national government.
Down
  1. 1. – An individual who carries out unauthorized warfare against a foreign country.
  2. 2. – A contract given to an empresario to settle on land in Texas.
  3. 3. – A ruler with absolute power.
  4. 5. – A representative of a group attending a formal meeting.
  5. 7. – To send goods out of the country.
  6. 8. – A white person living in the U.S. and who is not Hispanic
  7. 10. – A situation in which a disease spreads rapidly through a population.
  8. 11. – To measure the boundaries of something, such as land.
  9. 18. – A military blockade of a city.