Across
- 6. used Morse Code to communicate across wires
- 7. group of African Americans who moved west to escape harsh social conditions
- 9. this helped people travel leaving Maryland
- 15. the belief that the USA should stretch across the continent
- 16. this person created the phrase "Manifest Destiny"
- 17. synonym for fate, future
- 18. people wanted this in the west since there not much remaining in the east
- 19. USA gets this state from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Down
- 1. groups like the Mormons moved west for this
- 2. this country signed the Oregon Treaty
- 3. this gives Arizona and New Mexico to the US
- 4. this plant caused milk or meat of cows to become "poisonous"
- 5. this person became president in 1844 and believed in "Manifest Destiny"
- 8. this group went west to get rich quick
- 10. means to reach across the continent
- 11. meaning of MANIFEST
- 12. this was the new transportation for moving west
- 13. this made harvesting grain faster
- 14. helped farmers prepare their soil for planting