Across
- 5. someone who moved to California to get rich off gold
- 6. the thought that it was americas god given right to expand west-words
- 8. absorbing something or take control of it
- 13. a cloth covered wagon used to brave the Oregon trail
- 14. a trapper living in the wilderness
- 15. someone who takes the law into their own hands
- 18. give a reason to do something
Down
- 1. To use in a larger idea
- 2. a formal statement usually put in place by a judge
- 3. a town that is setup almost over night
- 4. when two people or country’s own one thing at once
- 7. the Spanish name for ranchers
- 9. something used to do an action
- 10. someone who came from another country to live there
- 11. an item put in place to stop people from getting past it
- 12. to create or set up
- 16. to get into something
- 17. the Spanish name for Mexicans living in Texas
