Across
- 4. Which people made huge profits during the Gold Rush?
- 10. What allowed people from both Britain and the United states to settle in Oregon country?
- 11. Which group took the law into their own hands in Gold Rush society?
- 14. Ordered Texans’ execution
- 16. Texans considered which battle the first fight of the Texas Revolution?
- 18. What did the United States insist was the border between the United States and Mexico?
- 19. Mexicans living in California
- 25. Which was the last country to challenge the United States control of Oregon?
- 26. Who was the African American who called the war with Mexico “disgraceful” and “cruel?”
- 29. Raised among the Cherokee
- 31. Green River explorer
Down
- 1. Who led the Mormon migration to the Great Salt Lake area?
- 2. This president agreed to annex Texas.
- 3. Shinbone Peak
- 5. Mexican ranch owners
- 6. Huge Mexican properties
- 7. Among the settlers of the Oregon country, after trappers, were the:
- 8. Mountain man turned guide
- 9. Mountain men maid their living as:
- 12. Founded by the Mormons, which city was originally called Deseret?
- 13. Oregon country was which direction from California?
- 15. About the defenders of which place did Santa Anna say, “The Texans fought more like devils than like men?”
- 17. Way to Oregon country
- 20. In the early 1800s, the United States, Great Britain, Spain, and Russia all laid claim to part of:
- 21. What was the high point of the year for mountain men?
- 22. What philosophy meant that the United States was set apart to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific?
- 23. What event ended in a few years but had long-lasting effects on California’s economy?
- 24. Santa Anna was captured in the battle of:
- 27. William Becknell’s route
- 28. Who was the Tennessee backwoodsman who lost his life at the Alamo?
- 30. After exhausting the beaver supply in Oregon country, many mountain men found work as: