Across
- 3. Ended war between america and mexico and america got to the Rio Grande
- 5. Miners found gold there and they panned for gold
- 6. had great farmland with forests and mountains great for fur trapping and farming
- 8. cost of the louisiana purchase
- 12. wanted to be annexed
- 14. started on april 1836
- 17. Democratic president who bought new Mexico and California
- 19. claims that the Rio grande was the border from Mexico to america
- 20. Where Mexico thinks nueces river is border and US thinks Rio grande was the border.
Down
- 1. a new leader of Mormon after smith
- 2. to have multiple wives
- 4. A very harsh and long journey and known as pioneer paradise
- 7. Whig congressman who will later become 16th president
- 9. costed only 15 million, was bought from napoleon
- 10. claims that the nueces river was the border from Mexico to america
- 11. major fur for making hats and clothes
- 13. where the final battle was at for the battle of mexico
- 15. tricked United states into buying Texas
- 16. lead troops into disputed region
- 18. a religious group of people that we learned about and was founded by smith
