4th Quarter Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. a treaty that ended the Mexican War and gave the United States much of Mexico's northern territory.
  2. 8. Mexican general and politician, he was president of Mexico and became a dictator. He fought in the Texas Revolution and seized the Alamo but was defeated and captured by Sam Houston at San Jacinto.
  3. 9. Mexican cowboys in the West who tended cattle and horses.
  4. 11. agents who were contracted by the Mexican republic to bring settlers to Texas in the early 1800s.
  5. 13. the trail that started in Nauvoo, Illinois and led all the way to present day Salt Lake City, Utah; this is the route that Brigham Young led his followers on to seek an area free from persecution.
  6. 16. a belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.
  7. 17. men hired by eastern companies to trap animals for fur in the Rocky Mountains and other western regions of the United States.
  8. 18. a revolt against Mexico by American settlers in California who declared the territory an independent republic.
Down
  1. 1. an important trade trail west from Independence, Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
  2. 2. American religious leader who headed the Mormon Church after the murder of Joseph Smith, he moved the community to Utah, leading thousands along what came to be known as the Mormon Trail to the main settlement at Salt Lake City.
  3. 3. 11th President of the United States, he settled the Oregon boundary with Great Britain and successfully conducted the Mexican-American War.
  4. 5. a 2,000-mile trail stretching through the Great Plain from western Missouri to the Oregon Territory
  5. 6. the final battle of the Texas Revolution; resulted in the defeat of the Mexican army and independence for Texas.
  6. 7. a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  7. 10. Spanish mission in San Antonio, Texas, that was the site of a famous battle of the Texas Revolution in 1836.
  8. 12. Spanish colonists in California in the 1800s.
  9. 14. American colonizer in Texas, he was imprisoned for urging Texas statehood after Santa Anna suspended Mexico's constitution. After helping Texas win independence from Mexico, he became secretary of state for the Texas Republic.
  10. 15. U.S. purchase of land from Mexico that included the southern parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico.