Unit 9 Crossword Puzzle

2. Frontier guide who helped create p
3. An area of the Great Plains on which many ranchers raised cattle in the late 1800s.
5. Spanish mission in San Antonia, Texas, that was the site of a famous battle of the Texas Revolution in 1836.
7. Federal lands set aside for American Indians.
8. A long journey on which cowboys herded cattle to northern markets or better grazing lands.
9. A western community that grew quickly because of the mining boom and often disappeared when the boom ended.
11. A railroad system that crossed the continental United States, construction began in 1863.
12. A belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
14. A 2,000-mile trail stretching through the Great Plains from western Missouri to the Oregon Territory.
15. An underdeveloped area.

1. A treaty that ended the Mexican-American War and gave the United States much of Mexico’s Northern Territory.
4. A law passed by Congress to encourage settlement in the West by giving government-owned land to small farmers.
6. Men hired by eastern companies to trap animals for fur in the Rocky Mountains and other western regions of the United States.
10. A system of messengers that carried mail between relay stations on a route 2,000 miles long in 1860 and 1861.
13. Spanish colonists in California in the 1800s.