Westward
Across
- 3. start, the start they wanted
- 6. gained or acquired
- 8. trail,a historic 2,000-mile overland route from Missouri to Oregon
- 9. person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area
- 11. destiny,the 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
- 12. purchase, the purchase of a state in the 1803
- 13. most common disease in the westward expansion
- 15. line or border separating two countries
- 16. a journey
- 17. the transportation they used
- 18. add or incorporate (new territory) into a new country
- 19. made you rich
Down
- 1. the location they were moving towards
- 2. clear or obvious to the eye or mind
- 4. life as a settler on a homestead
- 5. the geographic line between two places such as two countries
- 7. person who is among the first to explore or settle a country or area, especially one of the first Europeans to colonize the western US.
- 8. the animal moving the wagons
- 10. what they wanted
- 13. give up territory usually as the result of a treaty
- 14. annexation, Texas joined the U.S., adding a vast new territory.