Across
- 2. the month when settlers would begin on the Oregon Trail
- 4. Jackson put his supporters into government jobs - the __ system
- 6. Mexican cowhands that were the basis for cowboys
- 7. soft gold
- 8. the tribe that fought three separate wars with the US
- 10. Religious group that settled in Utah
- 13. the tribe most closely associated with the Trail of Tears
- 14. the political party of Andrew Jackson
- 15. passed by Congress in 1828 and greatly upset the South
- 17. term for receiving the most votes but not the majority
Down
- 1. a type of economics in which the government does not get involved with the economy
- 3. the political party of John Quincy Adams
- 5. the president after Martin Van Buren
- 9. the canal that connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes
- 10. idea that pushed American expansion west
- 11. US president elected in 1844
- 12. state annexed by the US in 1845
- 16. the agreement between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay - the ___ of 1824
