AMERICA Moves West

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Across
  1. 5. An area in the Great Plains where ranchers raised livestock in the late 1800’s.
  2. 8. farmers in the Great Plains who worked hard to break up the regions tough sod.
  3. 9. a transportation system that crosses the United States.
  4. 10. law passed in 1862 by congress to encourage settlement in the west by giving government owned lands to farmers.
  5. 11. an undeveloped area.
  6. 12. a federal lands set aside for American Indians.
Down
  1. 1. “Custer’s Last Stand”, battle between US soldiers and Sioux warriors that resulted in the worst defeat for the US army in the west.
  2. 2. the US army’s killing of 150 Sioux Indians in South Dakota ending the US/Ik brian wars on the Great Plains.
  3. 3. A western community that grew too quickly because of mining. The communities often disappeared when mining resources ran out.
  4. 4. African Americans who served in the US cavalry during the wars for the west.
  5. 6. a religious movement that spread among native Americans living in the Great Plains during the 1880’s.
  6. 7. laws passed by congress that split up Indian reservation lands among individual Indians and promised them citizenship.