Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 6. used Morse Code to communicate across wires
  2. 7. group of African Americans who moved west to escape harsh social conditions
  3. 9. this helped people travel leaving Maryland
  4. 15. the belief that the USA should stretch across the continent
  5. 16. this person created the phrase "Manifest Destiny"
  6. 17. synonym for fate, future
  7. 18. people wanted this in the west since there not much remaining in the east
  8. 19. USA gets this state from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Down
  1. 1. groups like the Mormons moved west for this
  2. 2. this country signed the Oregon Treaty
  3. 3. this gives Arizona and New Mexico to the US
  4. 4. this plant caused milk or meat of cows to become "poisonous"
  5. 5. this person became president in 1844 and believed in "Manifest Destiny"
  6. 8. this group went west to get rich quick
  7. 10. means to reach across the continent
  8. 11. meaning of MANIFEST
  9. 12. this was the new transportation for moving west
  10. 13. this made harvesting grain faster
  11. 14. helped farmers prepare their soil for planting