Mexican War Vocab

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Across
  1. 4. He was ordered to station troops near the northern bank of the Rio Grande River. The purpose of this was to pick a fight with Mexico.
  2. 7. a counting of the population done by the government at regular intervals
  3. 8. The 1848 treaty ending the U.S. war with Mexico; Mexico ceded nearly one-half of its land to the United States. Don’t talk CC
  4. 10. To give up, especially by treaty
  5. 11. This was the last bit of territory added to the continental United States. This was a strip of land across what is now Southern Arizona and New Mexico. The United States wanted this land in order to put a transcontinental railroad there. It cost $10 million to buy it from Mexico.
  6. 12. A person who works to end slavery.
Down
  1. 1. a vast region given to the United States by Mexico after the Mexican-American War; it included the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, most of Arizona, and parts of New Mexico, Colorado, and Wyoming.
  2. 2. A plan presented by Henry Clay that Texas would surrender its claims to the disputed area, and the United States would pay Texas $10 million dollars. California would also become a state according to this plan.
  3. 3. A person who drives or directs a team of animals.
  4. 5. Change
  5. 6. Elected officials who make the laws for the state
  6. 7. a meeting of delegates of a political party to form policies and select candidates
  7. 9. proceeding from an ancestor