Westward Expansion People Groups

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Across
  1. 2. / left due to potato famine
  2. 3. / left to avoid religious persecution
  3. 7. / Gold Rush took place here
  4. 8. Americans / mainly affected by the Homestead Acts
  5. 9. / many Irish worked on these
  6. 11. / Farmers
  7. 12. / Chinese left China due to lack of opportunity
  8. 14. Rush / brought many Asian immigrants
  9. 15. houses / Germans adapted by building this
Down
  1. 1. / polluted rivers
  2. 4. / negative impact on Native Americans
  3. 5. / Mormons settled here
  4. 6. / Germans brought up the idea with this
  5. 10. / came to California during the gold rush
  6. 13. / Germans settled here