Across
- 2. Which U.S. President started a war with Mexico?
- 5. Economic problems and _______ were two reasons people gave for not wanting Texas to be annexed.
- 7. According to the Compromise of 1850 this state would be admitted into the U.S. as a free state.
- 10. The belief popular in the United States in the 1800's that the country must expand its boundaries to the Pacific Ocean.
- 12. Someone who is against slavery and wants to end it.
- 13. To withdraw from a larger unit one belongs to.
- 14. Loyalty to one's own region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole
- 15. The Texan president that got Texas annexed into the United States.
Down
- 1. The formal giving up of rights, property, or territory, especially by a state or country.
- 2. The Joint Resolution of 1845 said that when Texas became a state they could keep _________.
- 3. texas began a relationship with this country in order to make the United States jealous.
- 4. The incorporating of a country or territory into another country or territory.
- 6. The Treaty of 1844 was ______ by the U.S. Senate.
- 8. Mexico claimed that this river was the border between Texas and their country, this dispute would later lead to war.
- 9. A time period in American history when people moved from the east coast to the west in search of opportunity.
- 11. Which state lost land due to the Compromise of 1850.