1800s Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 2. Soft gold
  2. 4. A rush to newly discovered goldfields in pursuit of riches
  3. 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
  4. 9. the first continuous railroad lines across the United States
  5. 10. The federal government restricted tribal members to portions of land allocated to federally recognize tribes
  6. 11. The Cherokee nation was forced to give up lands east of the Mississippi River and migrate to the west of the Mississippi river
  7. 13. The idea that White Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America
Down
  1. 1. People who led those who suffer at the hand of the US or White men
  2. 3. started by the Quaker Abolitionist Isaac T. Hopper, the resistance to enslavement through escape and flight, through the end of the Civil War
  3. 5. a dispute about the boundary between the United States and Texas on the Nueces Strip
  4. 6. Authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Native American lands within existing state boarders
  5. 7. Push towards the west coast of North America
  6. 12. This state was claimed by USA, Great Britain, Russa, Spain, and Native Americans