12.3 Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Important objects.
  2. 8. The general who captured Mexico City, causing Mexico to surrender.
  3. 10. The route Becknell used to get to Santa Fe that became a popular trade route.
  4. 11. Gave.
  5. 12. A military officer who wrote about California’s mild climate and vast resources and supported the Bear Flag Revolt.
Down
  1. 1. A purchase of $10 million that gave the United States a strip of land along the southern edge of modern day Arizona and New Mexico, making America’s mainland the size it is today.
  2. 2. A treaty between America and Mexico that was signed in February 1848, gave Texas to America and confirmed the Rio Grande as the border of Texas.
  3. 4. The cession where Mexico ceded California and New Mexico to America for $15 million.
  4. 5. Mexicans who lived in California.
  5. 6. Large estates.
  6. 7. Begun.
  7. 9. Ranch owners.