Homesteaders

4. provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land
7. began in Texas, where cattle would roam freely
8. A minority culture may willingly give up their identity and replace it with the majority culture as a means to gain acceptance into that majority culture
9. a track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run
10. a common style of dwelling built in the Prairies during the second half of the 19th century
11. a person who works in a mine

1. a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century
2. small parcels of land on which Indian people were supposed to live
3. an expert horseman who could adeptly herd cattle and whose skills with a lasso were legendary
5. the head of a household or at least 21 years of age to claim a 160 acre parcel of land
6. a man, typically one on horseback, who herds and tends cattle, especially in the western US and as represented in westerns and novels.