The Westwards Times Crossword!

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Across
  1. 5. a person who is among the first to explore or settle a new country or area.
  2. 6. a prospector in the California gold rush of 1849.
  3. 8. ended the war between the United States and Mexico
  4. 9. the idea that white Americans were divinely ordained to settle the entire continent of North America.
  5. 10. fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848
Down
  1. 1. a rapid movement of people to a newly discovered goldfield.
  2. 2. a member of a North American people originally of the southeastern US, now living on reservations in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
  3. 3. a state that went to war with Mexico
  4. 4. a member of any of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America, especially those indigenous to what is now the continental US.
  5. 7. a route used during the U.S. westward migrations