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Across 1. a battle between Mexico and the Texans for Texas independence (5 Words) 2. a rebellion led by John C. Fremont in California against Mexican rule (3 Words) 4. the Mexican president and highest general (5 Words) 11. a member of the church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints 12. a mountain man who was attacked by a grizzly bear (2 Words) 13. a person of Spanish blood who lived in Texas 14. the belief that the United States was destined to stretch across the continent from the Atlantic to Pacific (2 Words) 15. daring fur trappers and explorers who opened up the West (2 Words)

Down 1. A treaty between the United States and Mexico that stated Texas was US and the Rio Grande is the border (4 Words) 3. a transaction between the US and Mexico in which they gave us a large tract of land for $10 mil (2 Words) 5. people who bought large areas of land and hoped to make profit from increase in the value (2 Words) 6. a man who was a daring mountain man and fur trader famous for Beckwourth Pass (2 Words) 7. man who led the Texas army at the Battle of the Alamo (2 Words) 8. the second Mormon leader that moved them to Salt Lake City, Utah (2 Words) 9. a trail which led from Missouri to Santa Fe, NM opened by William Becknell (3 Words) 10. 12th president of the US elected in 1845 (2 Words)