Manifest Destiny

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Across
  1. 2. Mormon leader.
  2. 5. To add to.
  3. 7. Popular route for pioneers along Platte River.
  4. 10. Spanish speaking inhabitants of Texas.
  5. 11. Idea of U.S. expansion across continent.
  6. 14. Treaty that ended Mexican American War.
  7. 16. Texas leader.
  8. 17. Trail taken by religious group to Salt Lake City.
  9. 18. U.S. president during the Mexican American War.
Down
  1. 1. Pioneers trapped in Sierra Nevadas.
  2. 3. Boundary between U.S. and Mexico.
  3. 4. To give up a place.
  4. 6. Encouraged Texas settlement by offering land.
  5. 8. One state formed from Oregon country.
  6. 9. Site of Texas resistance in San Antonio.
  7. 12. Mexican dictator.
  8. 13. U.S. military leader during Mexican American War.
  9. 15. Designed the steel plow.