Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 8. Land set aside by the government for Native Americans
  2. 9. A sports competition with events based on the jobs of a cowboy
  3. 11. This type of house needed few building resources other than trees and an axe
  4. 13. Nickname for people who moved to California in 1849 to mine for gold
Down
  1. 1. A large territory of land bought by Thomas Jefferson for $15 million from the French
  2. 2. The belief that it was the “destiny” of the United States to expand westward
  3. 3. State where gold was found at Sutter’s Mill
  4. 4. The Transcontinental _____ connected the east and west of the United States
  5. 5. ____ Express
  6. 6. Outlaw ___ the Kid
  7. 7. When people rushed to an area to make their riches from mining it was called a ___ rush
  8. 10. With little government in the west it was known later as the ____ West
  9. 12. Children of the frontier had lots of these to do like milking cows and feeding the chickens
  10. 14. A person who snuck onto land early in Oklahoma to claim land during the land rush