Wild Wild West

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Across
  1. 3. Rush Discovery of a significant gold deposit in the West
  2. 4. US purchase of nearly 30,000 square miles, now southern Arizona and New Mexico
  3. 6. Geographical area that is controlled or claimed by a governing authority
  4. 7. The edge of a settled area
  5. 9. To add territory to a country
  6. 12. The process of becoming larger in size, scope, or influence
  7. 13. The first railroad completed in the United States in 1869
  8. 14. a land deal between the US and France
Down
  1. 1. Someone who is among the first to explore
  2. 2. West The western U.S. frontier during its 19th-century settlement period
  3. 5. The formal act of giving up land, rights, or property
  4. 8. Congress passed the Indian Removal Act
  5. 10. A person who leaves their home country to live permanently in another one
  6. 11. The Mexican Cession was a land transfer in which Mexico ceded a vast territory