History Vocab 3

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Across
  1. 3. One of the final battles of the Native American wars. The US Cavalry killed 146 Sioux
  2. 6. Process of fully understanding ideas of information
  3. 10. Network of railroad that crosses a land mass
  4. 11. Gave citizens or future citizens up to 160 acres provided they live on it, improve it, and pay a small registration fee
  5. 12. A route used during the westward migration
  6. 14. Authorized federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning Native Americans into individual plots
  7. 15. Characteristic of town or city
  8. 16. Worst US Army defeat in the Plains War
  9. 17. Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance against US government politics
Down
  1. 1. Leader of Wallowa band of the Nez Perce tribe
  2. 2. The act of creating something, typically a process or device
  3. 4. Largest mass migration in American history, bringing about 30,000 people to California
  4. 5. Area of land governed by federally recognized Native American tribal nations
  5. 7. The surface of the ground with grass growing on it
  6. 8. Characteristic of the countryside
  7. 9. Leader and medicine man from the Bedonkohe band of the Apache people
  8. 13. The process of change by which an organism or species becomes better suited to its environment