Unit 10 Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. military blockade of an enemy town or position in order to force it to surrender
  2. 6. declared independence in 1836 from Mexico, was annexed by the US in 1845
  3. 7. the original founder of the Mormons
  4. 8. a person who tries to spread certain religious beliefs among a group of people
  5. 10. person who headed to California in search of gold during the Gold Rush of 1849
  6. 11. belief that the US had the right and the duty to expand to the Pacific
  7. 14. yearly meeting where mountain men traded furs
  8. 15. to add on
Down
  1. 1. self-appointed law enforcer who deals out punishment without a trial
  2. 2. to give up, as land
  3. 4. added as a free state in 1850
  4. 5. territory in the US northwest, originally claimed by the US, Great Britain, Russia, and Spain
  5. 8. fur trapper who lived in the western mountains in the early 1800s
  6. 9. the Mormon leader who led his people to Utah
  7. 12. the military dictator of Mexico
  8. 13. the US President who supported expansion