Across
- 3. fur trading post at the mouth of the Columbia River
- 7. young army officer who got captured
- 9. traveled to the Rocky Mountains
Down
- 1. controlled a vast area of land in the southwest region of the United States
- 2. He was a skilled hunter, trapper, and guide
- 4. Realizing the economic value of this territory, the U.S. made treaties with ____ and Russia forcing them to give up their land claims
- 5. The practice of having more than one wife
- 6. The ________ government overthrew the Spanish rule in the early 1800s
- 8. One large group that traveled to the West in search of religious freedom