Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 2. Purchased from Spain in the Adams-Onis treaty
  2. 5. Small piece of land traded with Britain so that the U.S. could have all the land south of the 49th parallel
  3. 7. The name of the sale of land in the south, when the U.S. wanted to build a railroad, but needed some of Mexico's land.
  4. 8. The king's rule that colonists could NOT go west of the Appalachian mountains
  5. 9. The western border of the U.S. after the Louisiana Purchase
  6. 13. Purchase from France htat doubled the size of the U.S.
  7. 14. Where gold was discovered in 1949 that led to a gold rush
  8. 15. Land that Mexico had to give up with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
  9. 16. Religious group that moved to Utah to escape persecution for their religious beliefs
Down
  1. 1. Large piece of land out west that the U.S. had to make a treaty with Britain to acquire.
  2. 3. The effect of annexation of Texas
  3. 4. The western border of the U.S. after the Treaty of Paris
  4. 6. Treaty at the end of the U.S.-Mexican war
  5. 10. Name of the path that people took to get out west on covered wagons.
  6. 11. Annexed through a treaty with the U.S., even though many were upset it was a slave state
  7. 12. The western border of the U.S. after the Treaaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Oregon