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5. Called the "devils rope"
7. Homesteaders who seemed land and opportunity
15. made improvements to steel plow device
18. New way of lraveling in 1869
19. Majority of settlers who moved west
21. War between cowboys and ranchers
23. African americans who moved to Kansas from south to get away from racism
24. Allowed heads or people over 21 to receive a parcel of 160 acres for a filing fee

1. The massacre where militia raid on an Indian Camp in Colorado
2. Cities that sprang up along the western terminals
3. Technique used by farmers across the great plains
4. Brought the majority of Chinese immigrants
6. Attempt to disarm a group of Lkota Sioux Indians near South Dakota
8. The period between 1848 and 1849 when propsectators found large strikes of gold in Cali
9. 1876 battle
10. Indians changing clothes and renouncing tribal customs for a parcel of land
11. Discovered frist silver finding in U.S.
12. Invented barbed wire
13. Large commercial farms owned by spectators who hired laborers to work the land
14. Prospectors who sifted gold out of dirt and gravel through "panning"
16. Prohibited noisy arguments like bullfights and cockfights
17. seized the American West with protestant democratic values
20. Culture that cowboys owe to for much of their mode
22. First silver find