Across
- 5. Becknell's route
- 8. A treaty Mexico signed in 1848 making the Rio Grande the border with Texas
- 10. Natural materials that can be useful
- 11. An army officer
- 12. Large estates
Down
- 1. The event in which Mexico gave California and New Mexico to the US
- 2. To begin
- 3. The event in which the US paid Mexico $10 million for a strip of land on the southern edge of present day Arizona and New Mexico
- 4. A general tasked to capture Mexico City
- 6. Mexicans who lived in California
- 7. Ranch owners
- 9. To give