American West Vocab Words

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Across
  1. 3. group of wagons traveling together
  2. 6. an animal herder who tends cattle on ranches in North America, traditionally on horseback, and often performs a multitude of other ranch-related tasks
  3. 11. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for white settlement of their ancestral lands
  4. 13. a 29,670-square-mile region of present-day southern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico that the United States acquired from Mexico by the Treaty of Mesilla, which took effect on June 8, 1854
  5. 14. a series of forced displacements of approximately 60,000 American Indians of the "Five Civilized Tribes" between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government
  6. 15. the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of former Indian Territory, which had earlier been assigned to the Creek and Seminole peoples
Down
  1. 1. signed on April 29, 1868, between the U.S. Government and the Sioux Nation, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation, set aside for exclusive use by the Sioux people.
  2. 2. the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another
  3. 4. the given name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States
  4. 5. several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain
  5. 7. an African American cavalry soldier
  6. 8. regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States
  7. 9. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable
  8. 10. American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders
  9. 12. the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas