crossword puzzle :)

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Across
  1. 3. / free from outside control
  2. 5. / the U.S had claimed ___ (country) as part of the Louisiana Purchase
  3. 7. / small Texan force barricaded inside a nearby mission
  4. 9. / independent republic of California
  5. 11. / the country that went to war with Mexico
  6. 13. / a person who recruited 300 American families to settle in Texas
  7. 15. / official order
  8. 16. / to give up by treaty
Down
  1. 1. / someone who believed in Manifest Destiny and wanted California and New Mexico
  2. 2. / to add a territory to one's own territory
  3. 4. / the idea (1800s) stating that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific
  4. 6. / Mexicans who lived in the California
  5. 8. / the country that declared its independence from Spain
  6. 10. / a person who arranged for the settlement of land in Texas during the 1800s
  7. 12. / Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home
  8. 14. / ____ (country) and California was wanted by the U.S