Across

2. someone who left the United States to travel to the Oregon Territory
5. people who arrived in California early in the gold rush
7. to give up control of something
9. one who owned large tracts of land in early California
10. community that gold miners built almost overnight

Down

1. the idea that the United States was intended to extend its boundaries to the Pacific
3. a committee or group of concerned citizens who took the law into their own hands
4. a Mexican who lived in California
6. a huge property built in California in the early 1800s by Mexican settlers
8. to take control of something