Unit 2 - Expansion and Resistance

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Across
  1. 4. U.S. Army officer defeated and killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
  2. 5. Lakota Sioux leader who resisted U.S. expansion and helped defeat Custer.
  3. 6. Another name for the Battle of Little Bighorn.
  4. 7. The railroad company that started in the West and built East
  5. 12. A major victory for the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne over U.S. forces led by General Custer.
  6. 14. A railroad that connected the East and West coasts of the U.S., completed in 1869.
  7. 16. The place where the two railroads met in 1869.
  8. 17. Land set aside by the U.S. government for Native American tribes.
Down
  1. 1. The first government-run boarding school for Native Americans, opened in Pennsylvania in 1879.
  2. 2. The leader of the Nez Perce who tried to lead his people to Canada to escape U.S. control.
  3. 3. Being forced to leave one’s home or land.
  4. 8. The process of forcing a group to give up its culture and adopt another.
  5. 9. Founder of the Carlisle School; promoted the idea of “Kill the Indian, save the man.”
  6. 10. A law that gave settlers 160 acres of free land if they lived on and improved it for five years.
  7. 11. The railroad company that started in the East and built West
  8. 13. A Lakota war leader who fought at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
  9. 15. The ceremonial spike used to mark the completion of the transcontinental railroad.