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Across 4. President during the Mexican-American war, started the conflict (2 Words) 5. The man who discovered the first gold nugget in California, and started the Gold Rush (2 Words) 6. To give up 10. one person rule 11. The land given up by Mexico after the conclusion of the Mexican-American War (2 Words) 12. To anger or to cause an action 13. New Mormon leader (2 Words) 14. Dictator of Mexico (2 Words) 15. Legal rights to use the water in a river, stream, or other body (2 Words)

Down 1. To add on 2. People who came to California in 1849 to search for gold 3. Old mormon leader who was murdered (2 Words) 7. led a group of some 300 Americans into Texas. (2 Words) 8. Commander of the Bear Flag Rebellion (3 Words) 9. A general in the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War, later becomes president (2 Words)