Unit 6 Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. Congressman who represented the wants of the western states
  2. 7. Congressman who represented the wants of the southern states
  3. 8. road built by the federal government in the early 1800s that extended from Maryland to Illinois
  4. 10. Mexican territory surrendered to the United States at the end of the war with Mexico
  5. 11. Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas; the site of a famous battle of the Texas Revolution in 1836
  6. 12. practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs.
  7. 16. Texans defeated the Mexicans, gaining their independence
  8. 18. 1800s belief the America had the right to spread across the continent
  9. 19. trappers who explored and hunted in Oregon Territory in the early 1800s
  10. 21. Treaty ending Mexican War and granting vast territories to the United States
  11. 22. to add or take over
  12. 24. led the Mormon migration to Utah
  13. 26. law passed in 1830 that forced many Native American nations to move west of the Mississippi River
  14. 27. founder of Texas
  15. 28. The right to vote.
  16. 30. Trail from independence Missouri to Oregon used by many pioneers during the 1840s
  17. 31. Served as a United States Senator.
Down
  1. 1. the forced removal of Cherokees and their transportation to Oklahoma
  2. 2. people who went to California during the gold rush of 1849
  3. 3. canal completed in 1825 that connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River
  4. 5. leader of the Texas Revolution and the first president of the Republic of Texas
  5. 6. Political party formed in 1834 to oppose policies of Andrew Jackson.
  6. 9. 9th President, he served the shortest term as president, only 31 days
  7. 13. the right of states to limit the power of the federal government
  8. 14. 8th President, during his presidency America went through an economic crisis called the Panic of 1837
  9. 15. A political party formed by supporters of Andrew Jackson after the presidential election of 1824.
  10. 17. purchase of land from mexico in 1853 that established the present U.S.-mexico boundary
  11. 20. act passed by South Carolina that declared the 1832 tariff illegal
  12. 23. an important trade trail west from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico
  13. 25. to give up
  14. 29. 11th President, during his presidency America gained Texas, and Mexican Cession, and the Gadsden Purchase
  15. 31. 10th President, he took over for Harrison when he died