Across
- 1. Carry messages
- 3. nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready"
- 4. the prospectors who flocked to California in 1849 in the Gold Rush
- 5. "the Long Marcher"
- 6. Santa Anna revoked local powers in Texas and other Mexican states in 1836
- 7. marched to the Rio Grande and blockaded the river
- 12. Mexico agreed to the Rio Grande border for Texas and ceded New Mexico and California to the United States on February 2, 1848
Down
- 2. Investors who risked their own money in new industries
- 4. the latitude 54 40, the northern limit of the disputed Oregon Territory
- 8. Blacksmith invented the first steel plow in 1837
- 9. gold fever traveled eastward
- 10. Built an electromagnetic telegraph
- 11. made it his agenda to acquire as much land as possible
- 13. Mexico offered enormous amounts to agents
- 14. Started in Independence, Missouri and ended in Portland, Oregon