Unit 5 Crossword
Across
- 4. reasons to leave your country and immigrate to a new one
- 5. built railroads and canals in the US
- 9. one of the 21 Spanish missions in California
- 10. became farmers and craftsmen in the US
- 11. a setter moving to a new land
- 13. the belief that America was meant to take western land all the way to the Pacific Ocean
- 14. land granted by Mexico in the form of large estates in what is now California
- 17. worked as a laborer on the transcontinental railroad in the US
- 19. a tactic in which a military force surrounds a city in an attempt to take control
- 20. dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries
Down
- 1. Men who went to California to find gold in 1849
- 2. reason many Irish people immigranted to the US
- 3. known for building Suttlers Fort in 1843
- 6. a town that experiences a great population increase in a short amount of time
- 7. a rebellion
- 8. used to convert the Natives to Christianity
- 12. increased the US population but were not welcomed by Americans
- 15. Permanently move to another country
- 16. to adopt the culture or way of life in the nation one lives
- 18. Phrase said to tell people gold was found