Chapter 3 Key Terms/People

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Across
  1. 1. French explorer who traveled down the Mississippi River in 1682
  2. 5. a cone-shaped tent made by the Plains Indians out of wooden poles and animal skins
  3. 9. a Spanish explorer who was the 1st non-Indian to visit Oklahoma
  4. 10. a person who travels to unknown areas
  5. 11. a place on the frontier where people live
Down
  1. 2. a journey of exploration
  2. 3. a store on the frontier where people could get goods they needed in exchange for crops they had grown or things they had made
  3. 4. the land bought by the US from France in 1803 that nearly doubled the size of the country
  4. 6. a person who wanders from place to place hunting and gathering food
  5. 7. a member of an early Indian people who built huge mounds of earth used as burial places for their leaders and as religious temples
  6. 8. a type of elephant that lived in Oklahoma at the time of the earliest Indians