Westward Expansion

3. of Tears when the United States government forced Native Americans to move from their homelands in the Southern United States to Indian Territory in Oklahoma; nearly 4,000 died.
5. a song
8. Purchase region of the west central U.S. between the Mississippi River and the Rockies purchased in 1803 from France; it doubled the size of the United States
10. moving in large numbers
12. a journey or excursion undertaken for a specific purpose
13. a place that has a very quick population. Usually mining towns where an important mineral resource such as gold has been found.

1. an agreement or arrangement made by negotiation
2. one of the first to settle in a territory
4. of 1812 also known as the second American war for independence which was fought between the United States and the United Kingdom
6. Destiny idea that drove territorial expansion; the belief that the United States was destined—by God, to expand across the entire North American continent
7. the building in which the U.S. Congress meets at Washington
9. the state of being independent; not subject to control; free
11. a Texas fort where every Texan soldier was killed fighting for independence from Mexico in 1836