History Chapter 8 Quiz 8

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Across
  1. 2. – trail for cattle drives from Texas to Abilene, Kansas
  2. 5. – fights between western farmers and ranchers over grazing and water rights
  3. 7. – central prairie area of the United States called the “Breadbasket of America” because of all the grain produced there
  4. 10. – company that operated banks carried mail and offered travel in the west by stagecoach
  5. 12. – town with a railroad to transport cattle
  6. 15. – mail delivery using a relay system of horses and riders that delivered mail between Missouri and California in only 10 days
  7. 16. large sections of land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes
  8. 17. – 1890 incident in which over 200 Native American men, women and children from the Lakota tribe led nu Chief Big Foot were killed by the Us Army
  9. 20. – law that broke up tribal lands into separates plots and offered them to any U.S. citizen or Native American family that would take up farming or ranching
  10. 21. – place where a Union Pacific train traveling west and a Central Pacific train traveling east met; marking the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad
  11. 22. – men hired by a rancher to care for cattle
Down
  1. 1. – leader of Sioux nation during the Battle of Little Bighorn
  2. 3. – inventor of the Telegraph
  3. 4. – process of herding cattle to the nearest Cowtown
  4. 6. – U.S. Army General who died at the Battle of Little Bighorn
  5. 8. Railroad- a railroad that crosses the United States from Coast to Coast
  6. 9. – law that made large areas of land available to Native Americans
  7. 11. – areas of Oklahoma Territory that were not assigned to Native American Tribes
  8. 13. Bill allowing a settler to claim up to 160 acres of land for a low price if they would improve the land and live on it for at least 5 years
  9. 14. – western territory that was ready to be settled but had not yet become a state
  10. 18. – battle led by Chief Crazy Horse in which an entire unit of U.S. Soldiers died also called Custer’s Last Stand
  11. 19. – rush to claim pieces of the Unassigned lands in the Oklahoma Territory