Unit 2: An Expanding Nation

4. president who sent Lewis and Clark west to explore
9. Shoshone interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark
10. territory was split through diplomacy between the U.S. and the United Kingdom
11. the U.S. gained Florida from which country
12. mineral found in California that led to a rush of people coming into the area
13. to give up (land)
15. the belief that is was the duty of the U.S. to expand across North America
18. bought from France for $15 million
20. president at the start of the Mexican-American War
21. traveled west wanting to build homesteads with their husbands
22. the art of conducting negotiations with another country

1. spread Christianity throughout the west
2. to add a territory
3. the people who joined the rush for gold in California
5. took control of Florida after being sent into the land to stop Seminole raids
6. only state to have fought for independence and became its own country
7. Purchased from Mexico for $10 million
8. Spanish-speaking people who lived in parts of the U.S. that previously belonged to Mexico
14. group of people who were upset that Americans were immigrated into their territory
16. western most state that came from the Mexican Cession
17. left Asia for better life opportunities in the American west
19. a region of land and organized under a governor