Westward Expansion

3. One economic opportunity that the West could provide was possible BLANK for runaway slaves.
4. Territory that was divided by the United States and Great Britain (1846).
6. Two industries that grew out West were farming and BLANK.
7. The east was becoming BLANK as the population grew, making many want to move west.
11. Spain gave this land to the United States through a treaty (1819).
13. The availability of cheap, fertile BLANK made many people want to move west.
14. A war with Mexico resulted in this territory and the southwest territory becoming a part of the United States (1848).

1. Joined the United States as a state in 1845 after becoming an independent from Mexico in 1836 .
2. Jefferson bought this land from France which doubled the size of the United States.
5. Many people rushed west in the hopes of finding BLANK in California.
8. The Santa Fe Trail and BLANK were two overland trails many pioneers followed on their move westward?
9. Who was President when the Louisiana Territory was purchased?
10. They explored the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Territory from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
11. The land that doubled the size of the United States overnight was purchased from WHAT country?
12. The idea that expansion was for the good of the United States and was the right of the United States.