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Social Studies | Chapter 13

Learning Strategies (Tutorial): Mr. Harris
Across
route to Santa Fe, NM, that was used by traders in the 1800s (392).
to add on (389).
French word meaning “get-together”; yearly meeting where mountain men traded furs (382).
nickname for Texas after it won independence from Mexico in 1836 (389).
route to Oregon used by wagon trains in the 1800s (383).
a place where one is safe from persecution (399).
fort outside of Mexico City that was the site of an 1847 battle between the US and Mexico during the Mexican War (396).
person who follows his or her own independent course in life (381).
able to produce enough for one’s own needs (392).
belief held in the 1800s that Americans had the right and duty to spread across the continent all the way to the Pacific Ocean (393).
Mormon community built on the banks of the MS River in Illinois 1840 (398).
trapper who explored and hunted in Oregon in the early 1800s (381).
one of the more than 80,000 people who joined the gold rush to California in 1849 (400).
to give up (396).
location where gold was discovered in California in 1848, setting off the gold rush (400).
Down
The Treaty of ______ was an 1848 treaty in which Mexico gave up California and New Mexico to the US for $15 million (396).
strip of land in present-day Arizona and New Mexico for which the US paid Mexico $10 million in 1853 (397).
ruler with absolute power and authority (386).
term used in the early 1800s for the region west of the Rocky Mountains, including present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Wyoming, Montana, & Canada (380).
nickname for California after it declared its independence from Mexico (396).
Native American or Mexican cowhand (392).
person of Mexican descent born in Texas (386).
self-appointed enforcer of the law (401).
military blockade or bombardment of an enemy town or position in order to force it to surrender (387).
old Spanish mission in Texas where Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged American rebels, who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico in 1836 (387).
members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 (398).