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  1. 3. known for extending the territory of the US during the Mexican American war.
  2. 6. Wanted to share land (Oregon) with us, but we wanted to be on our own.
  3. 8. The trail you would take to make it farthest west
  4. 9. A town where Mexican troops tried to cease a cannon.
  5. 13. Where people from the US and Great Britain could settle there together.
  6. 14. The American people were divided over the war with Mexico.
  7. 17. What american settlers in texas wanted to gain.
  8. 18. A military leader and president in Mexico who sold millions of acres of land to the US.
  9. 19. When a white person can own an African American.
  10. 20. they took the law into their own hands because they were concerned about the citizens forming vigilance committees to protect themselves.
  11. 21. The mission where Santa Anna marched north and found a small Mexican Texas barricade.
  12. 22. brought thousands of settlers to Mexican Texas from the US.
  13. 24. take control of texas
  14. 26. The place where Houston took his army waiting for a chance to strike on Santa Anna.
  15. 29. negotiated a treaty with France where the US paid $15 million for the Louisiana territory.
  16. 30. The people that migrated to California from 1848-1849 in hopes to find gold and make fortunes.
  17. 32. Democrats slogan that advertised the border they wanted in oregon.
Down
  1. 1. settlers that obtained the grant from the government.
  2. 2. A border that got extended during the Mexican American war.
  3. 4. when the US purchased territory in North America from France in 1803
  4. 5. The idea that Americans would settle in North America and expand it.
  5. 7. was a river used as a border between Mexico and the US.
  6. 10. Mexico gave up all its claims to texas and agreed to Rio Grande as the border.
  7. 11. Mexicans who claimed Texas as their home.
  8. 12. helped in the Mexican American war and was later elected as president because of his leadership during the war.
  9. 15. A treaty that ended the mexican american war in favor of the US
  10. 16. The place where they went to prevent other forts from being overrun by the mexicans.
  11. 23. Belief in manifest destiny, federally issued indian removal acts, and economic promise.
  12. 25. Their new agricultural machinery allowed farmers to increase their amount of crops with less work.
  13. 27. little camps with tents built around mining sites.
  14. 28. When lots of people suddenly went out looking for gold.
  15. 31. When Stephen F Austin’s first colonial contract in Mexican texas gave settlers land grants.