American West

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Across
  1. 5. The _________ railroad
  2. 9. A conflict between cattle ranchers & homesteaders (7,6,3)
  3. 11. The Battle of Little ________
  4. 12. Describes Plains Indian way of life
  5. 15. The colonel at the Sand Creek Massacre
  6. 17. A US fort where 2 treaties were signed with Indians (4,7)
  7. 19. Indians were moved here
  8. 20. The _______ Act of 1862
Down
  1. 1. Black Americans who moved in 1879
  2. 2. This led to the Wounded Knee Massacre (5,5)
  3. 3. The state where the cattle industry began
  4. 4. Leader who set up Salt Lake City (7,4)
  5. 6. Animal hunted by Native Americans
  6. 7. The first cow town
  7. 8. Created a trail with his partner Oliver Loving
  8. 10. Home of the Plains Indians
  9. 13. Travelled west to escape persecution
  10. 14. The ________ Culture Act of 1873
  11. 16. Animal rode by Native Americans
  12. 18. A group who took a wrong turn on the Oregon Trail