Texas History

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Across
  1. 4. Small towns becoming big cities
  2. 6. The word for caring more about the region you live in than the country as a whole.
  3. 9. A form of government ruled by the people
  4. 10. Last name of one of the defenders of the Alamo who wrote the letter Victory or Death
  5. 14. Last name of the man who gave the speech Grito de Dolores
  6. 15. The process of adding land to an existing country
  7. 16. Branch of government that has the Senate and House of Representatives. They make the laws.
Down
  1. 1. Spanish term for cowboys who brought cattle to Texas.
  2. 2. Region of Texas with the lowest elevation but most rainfall; ______plains
  3. 3. The country that gained there independence from Spain in 1821
  4. 5. Last name of the first president of the Republic of Texas.
  5. 7. Term for people who would bring people to Coahuila y Tejas; i.e. Stephen F. Austin
  6. 8. Name for spanish military settlement
  7. 11. First name of the first European to step foot in Texas
  8. 12. Fill in the blank: God ____, and Glory - motives for exploration
  9. 13. _____ rights; another word for human rights - was fought for in the USA because people were segregated.