Westward Expansion

3. The movement of people from one place to another.
4. A person who is among the first to explore or settle a new area.
5. Someone who moves to a new area to live and build a community.
8. Someone who makes a new path or route that others can follow.
10. The process of growing or spreading out, especially as the United States moved west.
12. A formal agreement between nations or groups.
13. When a country adds new land to its control.
15. A region of land controlled by a government but not yet an official state.
16. A quickly growing town, often built near gold mines or railroads.

1. Searching for valuable minerals like gold or silver.
2. A person who went to California during the Gold Rush of 1849.
3. The belief that the United States was meant to expand across North America.
6. A piece of land given by the government to people who agreed to live on and farm it.
7. A time when many people moved to an area hoping to find gold (like in California in 1849).
9. Land set aside by the government for Native American tribes.
11. Free or cheap land given by the government to encourage settlement.
14. The edge of settled land where pioneers moved into new, unexplored areas.