Across
- 2. Soft gold
- 4. A rush to newly discovered goldfields in pursuit of riches
- 8. Provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who never bore arms against the US government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land
- 9. the first continuous railroad lines across the United States
- 10. The federal government restricted tribal members to portions of land allocated to federally recognize tribes
- 11. The Cherokee nation was forced to give up lands east of the Mississippi River and migrate to the west of the Mississippi river
- 13. The idea that White Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America
Down
- 1. People who led those who suffer at the hand of the US or White men
- 3. started by the Quaker Abolitionist Isaac T. Hopper, the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
- 5. a dispute about the boundary between the United States and Texas on the Nueces Strip
- 6. Authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Native American lands within existing state boarders
- 7. Push towards the west coast of North America
- 12. This state was claimed by USA, Great Britain, Russa, Spain, and Native Americans