SETTLING THE WEST

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Across
  1. 2. stretched from Texas to Canada
  2. 6. this act allowed U.S. citizens to buy 160 acres for a low cost as long as they live out West on that land for 5 years
  3. 8. at the Massacre of Wounded Knee, the U.S. killed _____ Indians and left the rest to freeze
  4. 9. large deposits of ore
  5. 11. Cyrus McCormick invented a more _____ reaper and thrasher
  6. 13. the Transcontinental ______ connected the East to the West
  7. 14. time period of this famous cowboy/lawman/gambler
  8. 15. African Americans who settled West
  9. 16. one of the inventions that led to the end of the cattle boom
  10. 17. at the Sand Creek Massacre, 150 ______ Indians were killed
  11. 20. invented a plow that would work the tough sod out West
Down
  1. 1. "blazed" the Goodnight-Loving Trail which extended from Texas to New Mexico
  2. 3. the discovery of gold in this state forced another removal of American Indians to reservations
  3. 4. large ranchers vs. small farmers
  4. 5. took place at the Battle of Little Bighorn and the American Indians killed Custer and all of his men in an hour
  5. 7. characterized by lack of law and order, general store, saloon, and boarding house
  6. 10. the goal of the Dawes General Allotment Act was to do this to the American Indians
  7. 12. prospectors were drawn to this state when large deposits of gold and silver were found
  8. 18. the _______ weather in the West could range form 40 degrees in the winter to 110 degrees in the summer
  9. 19. these communities made life more bearable on the Plains when they incorporated schools and churches to make life resemble like what it was back East