8th Grade Vocabulary Les.3-5 pg. 270-291
Across
- 5. Personal drive to continue trying to achieve one's goal.
- 6. A route traveled by pioneers that ran from Independence, Missouri to Oregon
- 8. A cargo boat with a flat bottom, used in shallow water.
- 12. A border or line that forms an edge of the settled part of a region.
- 16. Men who roamed the region's forests, trapping animals and living off the land.
- 17. Land west of the Mississippi River Indians were forced to move in the 19th century.
- 18. The amount of money brought in, income.
- 19. Having many forms or types.
Down
- 1. The first national road-building project in 1818.
- 2. To a very great degree, extremely
- 3. In spite of, notwithstanding
- 4. A steamboat launched by Robert Fulton
- 7. Indians were forced to give up their land east of the Mississippi and move to present day Oklahoma.
- 9. To get something.
- 10. To expand of apply further.
- 11. A huge area west of the Rocky Mountains.
- 13. What were mountain men admired as?
- 14. Law letting the government take land from the Indians in exchange for other land.
- 15. Linked the Great Lakes to the Mohawk and Hudson Rivers.