Module 7

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Across
  1. 1. gold mining areas with quick population and economic growth
  2. 2. Treaty ending the war with Mexico
  3. 4. Proposed amendment to a military appropriations bill of 1846 and prohibited slavery in lands gained from Mexico.
  4. 6. Religious group that settled near present-day Salt Lake City
  5. 7. Acquiring of land from Mexico in 1853 that established the present US-Mexico border
  6. 10. 12th President & American general in the war with Mexico
  7. 12. small group of anti-slavery Democrats who nominated Martin Van Buren and supported a congressional prohibition on the extension of slavery into the territories.
Down
  1. 1. Leader of the Mormons who moved the group west to Utah
  2. 3. Treaty that gave Native Americans control of the central plains
  3. 5. 11th president of the United States
  4. 8. abandoned mission and fort that became the site of a key battle in the Texas Revolution
  5. 9. Belief that the United States would expand across the continent
  6. 11. Treaty between the United States and Britain that extended the mainland boundary with Canada along the 49th parallel and established the current United States boundary