Setting the West Review

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Across
  1. 2. Silver discovered for the first time in the United States in Virginia City, Nevada was known by this name (2 words, no spaces )
  2. 5. helped private companies build the transcontinental railroad (3 words, no spaces)
  3. 7. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 prohibited the further immigration of people from ______________to the U.S.
  4. 8. the Transcontinental Railroad crossed this (2 words no spaces)
  5. 9. African Americans who moved from post-Reconstruction Kansas to the west
  6. 12. The Ute, Cheyenne, and Arapaho were forced to leave their lands and live on
  7. 13. main food source of great Plains Indians (also known as buffalo)
  8. 16. When the miners could no longer find the precious ore, people who could, left and the town became these 2 words, no spaces)
  9. 19. Farmers in the west paid higher _____ costs than did farmers in the east
  10. 24. Many African Americans moved west to avoid these laws in the South (3 words no spaces)
  11. 25. Irish & ______________helped construct the transcontinental railroads
  12. 26. Barbed wire caused _____ between settlers and Native Americans because they could no longer move freely about
  13. 27. last conflict between the Plains Indians and US Army (4 words, no spaces)
  14. 28. made western travel easier than wagon trains
  15. 29. property can be sold without _____________rights, meaning the buyer sells the land, but keeps the rights to anything beneath the surface*
Down
  1. 1. agreement between US and Plains Indians to set aside land in the Black Hills.(3 words no spaces)
  2. 2. left the US government needing move (2 words no spaces)
  3. 3. Miners created a this to help increase wages and improve working conditions
  4. 4. General Custer’s death in this battle led to an increase in Native Americans moving to reservations (5 words, no spaces)
  5. 6. invention that helped easily and cheaply enclose large ranches (2 words, no spaces)
  6. 10. cattle wandered freely, grazing in this “system” (2 words, no spaces)
  7. 11. New __________ did the work of slaves in the west (2 words, no spaces)
  8. 14. state where the land rush occur
  9. 15. This 1862 act offered 160 acres of land to encourage settlement in the west (2 words no spaces)
  10. 17. Ranchers used the open range or _______________ for grazing cattle (2 words, no spaces)
  11. 18. a town that grew up rapidly around a prosperous mine (2 words, no spaces)
  12. 20. Gold and silver strikes brought thousands of _________ to the West
  13. 21. Discovery of this in the Black Hills lead to violation of treaty
  14. 22. The American Cowboy was influenced by the Mexican _______________
  15. 23. Lakota Leader who led his people to Canada for a short time to avoid reservations (2 words no spaces)