Chapter 11-3 Crossword Terms

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Across
  1. 4. He build a trading post in the Sacramento River valley.
  2. 5. What city Americans captured without firing a shot.
  3. 7. Why did shippers and manufacturers want ports on the Pacific coast?
  4. 8. Who did President Polk want to take military action first in the war?
  5. 9. Frederick Douglass opposed war with Mexico due to concerns about this.
  6. 10. American Commodere who captured Monterey and San Francisco without firing a shot.
  7. 11. The US got New Mexico and this from Mexico in the Mexican Cession.
  8. 12. The Mexican government passed a law abolishing these and gave some land to Indians.
Down
  1. 1. War This was ended by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
  2. 2. The road that connected the Spanish missions in California.
  3. 3. His route became known as the Santa Fe Trail
  4. 4. The American General who captured Mexico City.
  5. 6. This river and the Rio Grande were the disputed boundaries between the US and Mexico.
  6. 10. Juan Bautista de Anza started a settlement here in 1776.