Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 2. the trail the cherokees used to move westof the mississippi river
  2. 3. ruled in favor of the cherokee in worcester v.s ga
  3. 9. was first discovered in the area in 1828, twenty years before the Gold Rush to California
  4. 10. speculators bribed legislators to get land cheap
  5. 11. land awarded by chance
  6. 12. invented for a faster and newer way of transportation
  7. 14. orded all indians east of the mississippi river to leave their homes and move west of the river
  8. 16. System where heads of house holds received 200 acres of land.
Down
  1. 1. creek chief
  2. 4. dishonest selling of land
  3. 5. a public land-grant university
  4. 6. machine used to separate the seeds from the cotton
  5. 7. money paid to someone to get them to do something
  6. 8. ordered all indians to be removed
  7. 13. to give up something especially land
  8. 15. argued the cherokee case before the supreme court of the us