Chapter 8 Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. those who plowed soil on the Plains
  2. 5. groups that tracked down and punished wrongdoers
  3. 6. 10,000 people raced to stake claims in the Oklahoma territory
  4. 9. for $10 an individual could file for a homestead
  5. 11. prospector who claimed Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada
  6. 12. public land available for settlement
  7. 13. planting seeds deep in the ground so they could grow
  8. 16. enabled hundreds of miles to be fenced of cheaply and easily
  9. 17. payments to reservation dwellers
  10. 18. stray calves with no identifying symbols
  11. 19. huge farms that yielded large profits
  12. 20. explored the “Great American Desert” (great plains)
Down
  1. 1. problem for farmers in the late 1880s
  2. 3. vast area of grassland owned by the government
  3. 4. trail used to drive up 1.5 million cattle from 1867 to 1871
  4. 7. tied stalks into bundles for collection
  5. 8. region from the Rocky Mountains to the 100th meridian
  6. 10. rounding up cattle and moving them
  7. 14. people who roamed vast distances
  8. 15. farming area that included the Dakotas and western Nebraska and Kansas