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3. The place where Houston took his army waiting for a chance to strike on Santa Anna.
7. negotiated a treaty with France where the US paid $15 million for the Louisiana territory.
11. settlers that obtained the grant from the government.
14. take control of Texas
15. The place where they went to prevent other forts from being overrun by the mexicans.
16. What american settlers in Texas wanted to gain.
17. When lots of people suddenly went out looking for gold.
19. The people that migrated to California from 1848-1849 in hopes to find gold and make fortunes.
20. When a white person can own an African American.
21. The trail you would take to make it farthest west

1. helped in the Mexican American war and was later elected as president because of his leadership during the war.
2. was a river used as a border between Mexico and the US.
4. Democrats slogan that advertised the border they wanted in oregon.
5. brought thousands of settlers to Mexican Texas from the US.
6. known for extending the territory of the US during the Mexican American war.
8. Where people from the US and Great Britain could settle there together.
9. A military leader and president in Mexico who sold millions of acres of land to the US.
10. The mission where Santa Anna marched north and found a small Mexican Texas barricade.
12. When Stephen F Austin’s first colonial contract in Mexican texas gave settlers land grants.
13. Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home.
15. A town where Mexican troops tried to cease a cannon.
18. The idea that Americans would settle in North America and expand it.