Indian Wars and Settling the Great Plains--pp. 136 to 139

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Across
  1. 4. technique that helped settlers overcome the arid conditions
  2. 6. gold was found on this Lakota Sioux reservation
  3. 8. government policy that favored absorbing indigenous populations into white settler culture
  4. 10. 1830 legislation designed to end conflict in the Appalachains
  5. 11. 1837 invention that aided in preparing the land for planting
  6. 12. the other name for the Battle of the Little Big Horn
  7. 16. act which promised settlers 160 acres of land for a small fee if they lived and worked it for five years
  8. 19. last name of one of the AFrican american leaders who encouraged settlement west
  9. 20. act which provided land for agricultural colleges
Down
  1. 1. areas of federal land put aside for indigenous tribes
  2. 2. 1868 treaty that was supposed to guarantee the Lakota had exclusive rights to their land
  3. 3. this cut sheaves of grain at harvest time
  4. 5. location of the 1864 massacre of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians by the US Army
  5. 7. used to pump water for irrigation
  6. 9. 1887 legislation that promoted assimilation
  7. 13. name given to African Americans who headed west
  8. 14. name given to the homes people built when there was a lack of lumber
  9. 15. this kind of tribe pursued the bison across the Great Plain
  10. 17. this posed the biggest threat to the existence of indigenous Americans
  11. 18. Kansas town set up by AFrican Americans