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Americans Move West



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7 A huge, dangerous river which any settlers moving west had to get across
9 Term to describe what the American settlers felt was their god given right to settle in the west
10 Second leader of the Mormons
11 Name of the city built and inhabited by the Mormons
12 Settlers who built farms on the Plains
14 Pioneers who got snowed in crossing a mountain and had to resort to cannibalism to survive
15 The earliest settlers who moved west to live in California or Oregon
16 Founder and first leader of the Mormons
18 Army bases along some of the trails to protect settlers from attacks by the native Americans
1 Factors which make another place sound attractive so people want to go there
2 Factors making life difficult which people want to get away from
3 What happens when gold is found and lots of people rush there to try to get rich
4 Known routes across the Plains to the west
5 A mountain range which needed to be crossed to get to far west
6 Term used for workers in the cattle industry
8 The name given to the wagons used by settlers to carry their belongings west
13 Native American tribe that lived on the Plains
17 Mountain men who traveled west looking for furs to bring back to sell
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