U.S. Expansion Crossword

3. In 1853, this purchase from Mexico brought the lower continental U.S. to its present boundaries.
5. Period when union troops occupied the South and enforced constitutional protections.
6. Industrialization occured very quickly due to this factor.
8. Majority of the civil war occured in this area.
10. Bought the Louisiana Territory from France.
12. The year that the United States Annexed Texas.
13. This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
14. The law that enabled the federal government force Native Americans living in the east to the west.
18. When Mexico had gained its independence from Spain in 1821, their territory included Western lands of which area?
19. Elected president in 1961.
20. Another word that means to withdraw.

1. As white settlers moved west during the 19th century, the government continued to remove these people from their land.
2. When the confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter , a federal fort in Charleston, South Carolina. This started what war?
4. The idea that the United States had the right and duty to rule the North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
7. Between May of 1846 and February of 1848, war raged between these two countries.
9. Abraham Lincoln made this document that declared all slaves in the Confederate states were free.
11. The separation of blacks and whites in the South.
15. The people who searched West to see what was on the land and how it was.
16. This was the South’s main cash crop that they grew.
17. This system linked farm areas to city areas and boosted trade and industry.