Ch. 11 Crossword Challenge!!!
Across
- 3. what happened to towns that no longer survived
- 4. this ended long cattle drives
- 6. Government action to encourage moving to Great Plains
- 7. type of mining by spraying water against a mountain
- 8. fast growing centers of commerce
- 11. one who tends to animals
- 12. type of farming where you plant seeds deep in moist soil
- 13. nickname of those who farmed the plains
- 17. type of cattle that adapted to the Great Plains
- 18. resource in demand in the East which drove the cattle industry
- 20. part of country area of focus
- 21. those who live and travel vast distances following herds for food
- 23. built across the Great Plains and encouraged people to settle there
- 24. Great Lakota tribe chief
- 25. on April 22, 1889 the gov. hosted a land rush in this state
- 27. vast grassland owned by government
- 28. not the Appalachians in the east but _ in the west
- 29. conflict between 1866 and 1868
- 31. US Government attempt to assimilate Native Americans
- 33. annual payments from the government
- 34. named after violin, where people ate and danced
Down
- 1. other than N. Dakota and S. Dakota, Congress admits this state in 1877
- 2. Union colonel defeated by Lakota and Cheyenne tribes
- 3. Hispanic neighborhoods
- 5. country in the south
- 9. one who digs for resources
- 10. what the eastern edge of the Great Plains was called
- 14. what mining led to (according to text)
- 15. used for travel at this time
- 16. rounding up cattle for distance journey
- 19. to be absorbed into a larger culture
- 22. name of type of farm that yielded big profits
- 26. huge ranches
- 30. massacre of Native Americans occurred here
- 32. Native American tribe