Texas History Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Amendment that includes freedom of the press
  2. 6. small streams or rivers that flow into a larger stream or river
  3. 7. mapped the Texas coast in 1519
  4. 8. country La Salle was from
  5. 9. tells what the symbols on the map mean
  6. 11. built by the people of Galveston to protect them in future storms
  7. 14. Quanah Parker was the last chief of this tribe
  8. 17. period of rebuilding after the Civil War
  9. 21. belief that the US should stretch to the Pacific Ocean
  10. 22. region of Texas where the majority of the population lives
  11. 24. Native American culture group that relied on the buffalo
  12. 25. POTUS during the Civil War
  13. 26. brought the Old 300 to settle in his colony
  14. 27. city found in the Panhandle
Down
  1. 1. number of border states during the Civil War
  2. 3. became president of Mexico in 1833
  3. 4. established towns like Fredericksburg and New Braunfels
  4. 5. most traveled cattle trail
  5. 9. name of La Salle's ship that sank in Matagorda Bay
  6. 10. one of the motivations for the Spanish to come to the New World
  7. 12. a government in which the people vote for their political representatives
  8. 13. "Come and Take It"
  9. 15. the Spanish built these to convert the Native Americans to Catholicism
  10. 16. where oil was discovered in Texas on January 10, 1901
  11. 18. most advanced tribe in Texas
  12. 19. filibuster whose ears were cut off as proof he was dead
  13. 20. wrote the "Victory or Death" letter from the Alamo
  14. 23. Father of Texas Education and 2nd President of the ROT