Manifest Destiny Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. In Wyoming; pioneers arrived around the 4th of July, "Independence Day"
  2. 5. People who move from one place to another (within the same country)
  3. 8. a piece of ground of a certain size which no one has a right to mine except the person who owns the ground
  4. 9. a town that grew fast as a result of mining
  5. 12. Native American tribes that lived where the Oregon Trail crossed
  6. 13. Large animal that pulled the wagons
  7. 16. a rocking device used in placer mining for separating gold from rock and gravel; also called a rocker
  8. 17. to test ore with a chemical to find out how much gold is in it
  9. 18. a person in search of gold
  10. 20. any trace or sized particle of placer gold
Down
  1. 1. Wagon
  2. 3. Disease that killed more people than anything else
  3. 4. a form of robbery wherby a rightful owner of a claim is forced to abandon it by threats, violence or even murder
  4. 6. Large, wild animal living in the west
  5. 7. a vertical shaft dug in loose dirt or gravel in the diggings hole
  6. 10. Path/road that pioneers took to get to Oregon
  7. 11. Different families formed traveling grouossword98h2340g98h gold pioneer
  8. 14. First people to move into a new territory/area
  9. 15. a flat Indian bowl used by miners when they needed a meal pan or mining pan
  10. 19. the mayor or judge of a town