Across
- 2. an artificial waterway
- 3. the first settlers of a new territory
- 4. Gold Rush when Americans rushed west upon the discovery of gold
- 7. Trail route from the Missouri River in Missouri, northwest to the Columbia River in Oregon - used by people moving westward
- 8. Wagon a broad-wheeled covered wagon
- 9. the idea that expansion was for the good of the country and the right of the country
- 11. route between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Missouri (important from 1821-1880)
Down
- 1. to grow
- 5. Republic it's own country
- 6. cutting down trees into logs and transporting the logs to a saw mill
- 10. to add a territory to one's own territory.