Westwasd Expansion

1. Texas was admitted into the Union as a what?
3. California city that boomed in 1849
4. Port city at the end of the Mississippi River; US gained control with the Louisiana Purchase.
7. This crop was destroyed by fungus, a push factor for the Irish
9. The name of the group that left their country because of the corrupt government
13. Land acquired from Mexico in 1853 to build railroads connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
14. Loyalty to your own region or section over the country.
15. The acquisition that lead to the US-Mexican War in 1846.
17. the act of adding territory to a country.
18. Land acquired from Spain in 1819 with the Adams-Onis Treaty.
20. The country of origin for people that left due to over population for gold in California
21. River marking the southern border between US and Mexico in 1848.
22. attraction that drives someone to a country or place.
23. A religious group that had to emigrated due to religious persecution

2. This ended the US-Mexican War in 1848.
5. Land acquired in 1846 by negotiating a treaty with Great Britain, fulfilling Manifest destiny.
6. The idea that Americans had a god given right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
8. Distress that drives a person away from a certain place.
10. A push factor where cities grow to become overpopulated and polluted
11. the act of giving a territory away to another country.
12. Land acquired from Mexico for $15 million.
16. President that campaigned on Manifest Destiny and went to war with Mexico.
19. Deal that doubled the size of the US in 1803.