Across
- 2. The Cherokee Indians were forced to leave their lands. They traveled from North Carolina and Georgia through Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Arkansas-more than 800 miles (1,287 km)-to the Indian Territory. More than 4, 00 Cherokees died of cold, disease, and lack of food during the 116-day journey.
- 3. this allowed a settler to acquire 160 acres by living on it for five years, improving it and paying about $30
- 5. a period from 1848 to 1856 when thousands of people came to California in order to search for gold.
- 7. extending across a continent
- 8. large, broad-wheeled, canvas-covered wagon used by western settlers
- 9. Form of relocation diffusion involving permanent move to a new location.
- 11. Trail from independence Missouri to Oregon used by many pioneers during the 1840s
- 13. A notion held by a nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific.
- 14. to add or attach
- 15. A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force.
- 16. Wrote the Declaration of Independence
- 17. President of the United States
- 18. Extending the nation beyond its existing borders
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- 1. an expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States
- 4. (1846-1848) The war between the United States and Mexico in which the United States acquired one half of the Mexican territory.
- 6. Land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains purchased from France for 15 million dollars. It doubled the size of the US at the time, getting more land than the US wanted.
- 10. A Shoshone woman whose language skills and knowledge of geography helped Lewis and Clark
- 12. Trail from independence Missouri to Santa Fe New Mexico in the mid-1800s