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Across
  1. 2. the artificial waterway opened in 1825, linking Lake Erie to the Hudson River
  2. 11. the 1800s belief that Americans had the right to spread across the continent
  3. 14. the forced migration by the Cherokee and other Native American groups from their southeastern homelands to territories west of the Mississippi River
  4. 16. the first federally funded national road project, begun in 1811
  5. 20. an 1848 treaty in which Mexico gave up California and New Mexico Territory to the United States for $15 million
  6. 24. Stephen Austin (1793–1836), often referred to as the “Father of Texas,” founded the first colony of U.S. settlers in Mexican Texas. Born in Virginia, he spent most of his life on the frontier, living in the Missouri and Arkansas territories before moving to Texas.
  7. 25. Brigham Young (1801–1877) supervised the Mormon migration to Utah beginning in the 1840s. He was the first governor of Utah when it became a U.S. territory.
  8. 28. the practice of giving supporters government jobs
  9. 29. to give up
  10. 30. to add on or take over
  11. 31. Sam Houston (1793–1863), a soldier, lawyer, and politician, was instrumental in Texan independence and its subsequent annexation by the United States. He was born and grew up on a farm in Tennessee. In his teens, he ran away and lived with the Cherokee for three years.
Down
  1. 1. the route to Santa Fe, New Mexico, that was used by traders in the 1800s
  2. 3. William Henry Harrison (1773–1841) was the ninth President of the United States. In 1841, he died of pneumonia after only a month in office.
  3. 4. the right of state to limit the power of the local government.
  4. 5. James Polk (1795–1849) was the eleventh President of the United States, serving from 1845-1849. He led the expansion of the United States to the Pacific Coast through the acquisition of the Oregon Territory and the Mexican Cession.
  5. 6. a term to describe one of more than 80,000 people who joined the California Gold Rush in 1849
  6. 7. an 1836 battle between Texans and Mexicans during the Texas war for independence from Mexico
  7. 8. a strip of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico for which the United States paid Mexico $10 million in 1853
  8. 9. John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) was the sixth President of the United States who earlier served as a U.S. diplomat, senator, and Secretary of State.
  9. 10. a law passed by Congress in 1830 setting up territories west of the Mississippi River where Native Americans living in existing states could be relocated
  10. 12. an act passed by South Carolina that declared that the Tariff of 1832 unconstitutional
  11. 13. an old Spanish mission building in Texas where Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged Texans in 1836
  12. 15. a U.S. political party active between 1832 and 1858 that backed government support for the economy
  13. 17. a U.S. political party dating from the 1820s to the present that at first spoke out for small farmers and workers against moneyed businessmen and whose policies have changed over the years
  14. 18. the right to vote
  15. 19. the Mexican territories of California and New Mexico given to the United States in 1848
  16. 21. John C. Calhoun (1782–1850) was a leading member of the House of Representatives for South Carolina under Presidents Madison and Monroe who spoke for the interests of the South, and who later served as Vice President and U.S. senator.
  17. 22. John Quincy Adams (1767–1848) was the sixth President of the United States who earlier served as a U.S. diplomat, senator, and Secretary of State.
  18. 23. John Tyler (1790–1862) was the tenth President of the United States, serving from 1841-1845. He accomplished little during his presidency due to quarrels between Whigs and Democrats.
  19. 26. the route to the Oregon Country used by wagon trains in the 1800s
  20. 27. a trapper who explored and hunted in the American West in the early 1800s