| A | B |
|---|
| Mexico | owned Texas |
| Americans | largest group in Texas |
| Roman Catholic | Mexican required religion |
| outlawed slavery to decrease | American settlers |
| Santa Anna becomes dictator | Texas delcares independence |
| Lone Star Republic | Texas |
| Col. Travis | led Texans at the Alamo |
| Jim Bowie | Invented a knife |
| Davey Crockett | famous frontiersman, former senator |
| slavery | reason Texas couldn't become a state |
| Guadalupe Hidalgo | treaty |
| James K. Polk | president of U.S. |
| Sam Huston | president of Texas |
| Santa Anna | Mexican dictator |
| Sutter's Mill | gold found |
| Donner Party | settlers trapped in the Rockies |
| Zachary Taylor | Battle of Buena Vista |
| Winfield Scott | captured Mexico City |
| Goliad | 350 Texans executed |
| land | reason for Mexican war |
