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Across 1. The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Purchase was the second purchase made by the U.S., purchased from France in 1803. 4. Many _ _ _ _ _ _ came to California seeking their fourtune. 5. The wide streach of grassy land call the _ _ _ _ _ _ _. 6. The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Gap, long used by Native Americans, the path was widened by loggers , making it accessible to pioneers, who used it to journey into the western frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee. 7. An expedition in 1803–1806, headed by Lewis and William _ _ _ _ _, where the first Americans overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back. 10. The biggest thing cutting the origional colonies off from the rest of the cotinent were the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _. 12. Many settlers moved _ _ _ _ over the mountains. 14. In 1848 John _ _ _ _ _ _ found a nugget in a ditch near his sawmill. 15. A _ _ _ _ _is an American who immigranted to the Republic of Texas from 1820 - 1830. 17. Offered _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _to the Indian tribes as empty bribes to claim their land. 18. Daniel _ _ _ _ _ person is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now the U.S. state of Kentucky, which was then beyond the western borders of the Colonies. 19. Aquired in 1846 by an agreement with Britain, the _ _ _ _ _ _ Country consisits on what today is Washington, Oregon, Idaho parts of Montana and Wyoming.

Down 1. Settelers used _ _ _ _ _ _ this to build their houses. 2. The _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mountains seperate the Colonies from the rest of the continetal states 3. Texas was apart of _ _ _ _ _ _ before the Texas Annexation in 1845. 8. An expedition 1803–1806, headed by Meriwether _ _ _ _ _ and and William Clark, where the first Americans overland expedition to the Pacific coast and back. 9. Oregon Country and Gadsden Purchase are the only two pieces of land the U.S. _ _ _ _ _ _ one from Britain and the other form Mexico 11. There were _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _states were there in the origional English Colonies? 13. In 1848 news of what John found started the California _ _ _ _ rush, with everyone rushing to find their fourtune. 16. The origional colonies dotted the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ shore.