Unit 8: Important People, Places, and Events

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Across
  1. 2. used to fence in land on the Great Plains, eventually leading to the end of the open range
  2. 3. Last name of the person who founded the Chisholm Trail
  3. 8. ________ Walls battles, a buffalo hunters camp in Texas that was attacked by Kiowa and Comanches
  4. 10. Last name of man who led the U.S. Army troops in raids to force native americans to reservations
  5. 11. Apache leader who fled into Mexico, and who conducted raids across the Rio Grande for years
  6. 12. Last name of the Inventor of barbed wire
  7. 13. Last name of the 18th president who sought peace with Native Americans on the Texas Frontier
Down
  1. 1. __________Trail that led through San Angelo, Texas and went into Colorado and Wyoming
  2. 3. ________ Trail that was a major route from Texas to Abilene, Kansas
  3. 4. ___________ soldier, nickname of African American soldiers who served in the western United States after the Civil War
  4. 5. Last name of a wealthy cattle baron that created huge cattle corporations
  5. 6. Last name of the last Comanche chief
  6. 7. Treaty of _________ Lodge Creek, treaty where native americans agreed to live on reservations
  7. 9. __________ Wagon Train Raid, raid led by Santanta with 100 native americans