Early Statehood

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4Alexander ________: led expedition that chased Mexican troops to border (10)
6to loot and pillage (7)
10those who leave a country or region to settle in another place (10)
11first battle of Mexican-American War (8)
12Juan Antonio __________: Mexican born congressman and signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence (7)
13expedition that entered Mexico and whose men were captured (4)
14land claimed by a settler (9)
15tracts of land set aside for Indians (12)
17Nicholas _____: led group of Texas volunteers who were massacred by Mexicans (6)
19Angela _____: led fight to prevent state archives being moved from Austin (6)
23a type of democracy where people are represented by others in the law making assembly (8)
24Matthew __________: led Texas troops at the Battle of Salido Creek (8)
25Texas' most profitable agricultural product in 1850s (6)
26about to occur (8)

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1John ________: first Chief Justice of Texas State Supreme Court (8)
2once every two years (8)
3James ________: first state governor of Texas (9)
5a group of troops (10)
7transportation that first reached Texas in the 1850s (9)
8records of an organization (7)
9_________ of 1850: allowed Texas to become part of the United States (10)
16to fully agree with (7)
18protected settlers along the Indian frontier (5)
20an independent farmer (6)
21general who led Santa Fe expedition (6)
22general who led U.S. troops into Mexico (5)

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