Expansion after the Civil War

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Across
  1. 2. Schools, Schools designed to eliminate Native culture
  2. 4. Skilled Mexican cowboys
  3. 5. People who moved west to claim land
  4. 8. Process of establishing communities in the West
  5. 10. Movement of people from other countries
  6. 13. Act, Law that broke up tribal land into individual plots
  7. 14. Responsible use of natural resources
  8. 15. Industry based on extracting natural resources like gold
  9. 16. Dance, Native American religious resistance movement
  10. 17. Growth and spread of population westward
  11. 18. Protection of nature from human use
  12. 20. Law granting 160 acres to settlers willing to improve land
Down
  1. 1. African Americans migrating west after Reconstruction
  2. 3. Forcing Native Americans to adopt American culture
  3. 6. Livestock industry of the Great Plains
  4. 7. Wars, Conflicts between ranchers and farmers
  5. 9. railroad Railroad connecting the eastern and western U.S.
  6. 11. Movement of people into the West for opportunity
  7. 12. Land designated for Native Americans
  8. 19. Rapidly growing towns due to mining