Across
- 5. fighting for texas freedom from mexico
- 10. antislavery novel
- 11. president of the united states
- 13. raising 1 or 2 cash crops to sell at home
- 14. mexico president
- 15. prospectors that went looking for gold
- 16. attracted people to go to california
- 17. invented the first steel plow
- 18. control over another country's territory
- 21. debate over slavery in kansas
- 22. mapped the Oregon trail
- 23. conductor of the underground railroad
Down
- 1. forbade imprisonment of runaway slaves
- 2. trail from missouri to oregons valleys
- 3. abandoned fort
- 4. invented the mechanical reaper
- 6. duty to expand westward
- 7. latitude 54 40 degrees
- 8. 12th president of the united states
- 9. said "remember the alamo"
- 12. slaves escape route
- 13. trail from missouri to sante fe
- 17. american abolitionist
- 19. favoring native-born Americans
- 20. carries messages