Westward

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Across
  1. 3. start, the start they wanted
  2. 6. gained or acquired
  3. 8. trail,a historic 2,000-mile overland route from Missouri to Oregon
  4. 9. person who moves with a group of others to live in a new country or area
  5. 11. destiny,the 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
  6. 12. purchase, the purchase of a state in the 1803
  7. 13. most common disease in the westward expansion
  8. 15. line or border separating two countries
  9. 16. a journey
  10. 17. the transportation they used
  11. 18. add or incorporate (new territory) into a new country
  12. 19. made you rich
Down
  1. 1. the location they were moving towards
  2. 2. clear or obvious to the eye or mind
  3. 4. life as a settler on a homestead
  4. 5. the geographic line between two places such as two countries
  5. 7. person who is among the first to explore or settle a country or area, especially one of the first Europeans to colonize the western US.
  6. 8. the animal moving the wagons
  7. 10. what they wanted
  8. 13. give up territory usually as the result of a treaty
  9. 14. annexation, Texas joined the U.S., adding a vast new territory.