Ja'Narii S.S. project
Across
- 2. -small house made from tree trunks
- 6. -deserted town with few or no remaining inhabitants
- 8. -the extreme limit of settled land beyond which lies wilderness
- 11. -the railroad system that connected the east coast to the west coast
- 14. -someone who carries a gun and shoots well
- 16. -a sudden panicked rush of cattle or bison
- 18. -a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire
- 21. -land set aside for native american indians
- 22. -the frist people to explore and settle the west
- 23. -american folk hero,pioneer,explorer,and fronttiersman
- 25. -convoy of covered wagons transporting the settlers westward
Down
- 1. -a large farm, especially in the western US and Canada, where cattle or other animals are bred and raised.
- 3. -rapidly growing town
- 4. -purchase of a large expanse of land by the u.s. from France in 1803
- 5. -a historical territory of the u.s. that extended from the ohio and mississippi rivers to the great lakes
- 7. -rapis movement of migrants to california,starting in 1848 after gold was found
- 9. -belief that the expansion of the u.s. across the American continent was inevitory
- 10. -explorers dispached by thomas jefferson to map and explore the unchartered west.
- 12. -mail service on horseback that operated from missouri to california
- 13. -moving a herd of cattle from one place to another,
- 15. -piece of free land acquired from the government in exchange for living and working on it
- 17. -a person who tends cattle on ranches
- 19. -when lands were opened to claim a plot
- 20. -a wagon trail that stretched from the missouri river the the far west
- 24. -a wild or half-tamed hores