Social study vocab

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Across
  1. 3. very young man hired to heard cattle on African Americans land
  2. 5. great plains farmer of the late 1800's who had to cut through sod, or fick grass before planting crops
  3. 6. cowboys used this method to move large herds of cattle from ranches in Texas to towns farther north along the railroads
  4. 7. people who mines for gold,silver,or other valuable things
  5. 8. name for African Americanisms pioneers who moved to the great plains after the civil war
  6. 10. land set aside by the government for native Americans
  7. 11. service begun in 1860 that used a relay of riders on horses to deliver mail from Missouri to California in ten days
Down
  1. 1. early settler of a region
  2. 2. settlers who claimed land on the great plains under the homestead act
  3. 4. sudden movement of many people to an area where gold has been found
  4. 9. people who hired cowboys to drive their herd towards the market