Across
- 1. a status which gives a territory certaint rights
- 5. what is the term for US expansion in the 18th to 19th century
- 6. to formally giving up or giving away, usually as a result of a treaty or compromise
- 8. a railroad that connected the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
- 9. having gotten somnething, in a more formal way
- 10. a person who is among the first to settle an area.
- 13. when a country or part of a country is incorporated into another country
Down
- 2. territory whose owner is unclear or contested
- 3. growing
- 4. movement of to one place or another by a group
- 7. a manmade river or diversion of one
- 11. a area with similar geographical features, climate, and culture
- 12. a person who traveled to California at the peak of its gold rush in 1949