Unit 8 Vocabulary Crossword

A 2,000-mile trail stretching 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
An important trade trail 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-1800 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 region of the United States
The final battle of the Texas Revolution; resulted in the defeat of the Mexican army and independence for Texas (1836)
U.S. purchase of land from Mexico that included the southern parts of present-day Arizona and New Mexico (1853)