Westward expansion vocab

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Across
  1. 2. person who tends to cattle on a ranch
  2. 6. lies at the border of where civilization ends and where unsettled area begins
  3. 7. system for transmitting messages along a wire
  4. 8. belief that expansion of the U.S. across the american continet was inevitable
  5. 10. when lands were opened to sale and people would race to claim a plot
  6. 11. land set aside for native american indians
  7. 12. rapid movement of migrant to california, starting in 1848 after gold was found
  8. 13. a wagon trail stretched from the missouri river to the far west
  9. 14. the railroad system that connected the east coast to the west coast
Down
  1. 1. explorers dispatched by thomas jefferson to map and explore the uncharted west
  2. 2. moving a herd of cattle from one place to another
  3. 3. purchase of a large expanse of land by the U.S. from France in 1803
  4. 4. the first people to explore and settle the west
  5. 5. piece of free land acquired from the government in exchange for living and working on it
  6. 9. convoy of covered wagons transporting settlers westward.