The Developing and Expanding Nation

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Across
  1. 1. The government gave railroad companies a gift of ten square miles of land alongside each mile of track they built.
  2. 3. Alamo
  3. 6. Which of the following groups settled in the West to escape religious persecution?
  4. 8. The discovery of __ in California quickly increased the territory’s population.
  5. 9. Which event discussed in this chapter was most responsible for the growth and expansion of the United States in the mid-1800s?
  6. 11. Which event discussed in this chapter was most responsible for the growth and expansion of the United States in the mid-1800s?
  7. 12. American settlers to move to Texas
  8. 13. the ___ headed west
  9. 15. our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
  10. 17. What does this image represent?(Angle)
Down
  1. 2. Which of the following were most responsible for expanding U.S. territory into Texas and areas west of the Rocky Mountains? (2)
  2. 4. The railroad ___ ___ to the West.
  3. 5. Which event discussed in this chapter was most responsible for the growth and expansion of the United States in the mid-1800s?
  4. 7. Which of the following were most responsible for expanding U.S. territory into Texas and areas west of the Rocky Mountains?
  5. 10. This invention helped make which of the following obsolete? (telegraph)
  6. 14. He ordered U.S. troops to cross the Nueces River
  7. 16. Which event discussed in this chapter was most responsible for the growth and expansion of the United States in the mid-1800s?