U.S History Crossword

a 2,000-mile trail strectching through the Great Plains from western Missouri to the Oregon Territory
The purchase of French land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains that doubled the size of the United States (1803)
An important trade west from Independence,Missouri, to Santa Fe, New Mexico
A massive movement of settlers to California to make a fortune with newly discovered gold
members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Spanish Mission in San Antonio, Texas
A belief shared by many Americans in the mid-1800s that the United States should expand across the continent to the Pacific Ocean
Men hired by eastern companies to trap animals for fur in the Rocky Mountains and other western regions of the United States
The final battle of the Texas Revolution; resulted in the defeat of the Mexican army and independence for Texas
U.S purchase of land from Mexico that included the southern parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico (1853)
A revolt against Mexico by American settlers in California who declaed the territory an independent republic (1846)
a rebellion of colonists from US and Tejanos in putting up armed resistance to the centrailist government of Mexico
was an armed conflict between the Us and Mexico from 1846 to 1848
Two explores who went on a expedition in 1804 to explore the Louisiana Purchase
a gold seeker who moved to California during Gold Rush
The Founder of Texas
A group of western travelers who were stranded in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-47 only 45 of the party's 87 members Survived
11th President of the United States
A Mexican priest who led a rebellion of 80,000 poor Indians and mestizos or people of Indian and Spanish ancestry
Spanish Colonists in California in the 1800s