US History Chapter 2 Settling the West

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Across
  1. 2. a person who continually moves from place to place, usually in search of food
  2. 5. to be likely to, or have intentions to, perform an act
  3. 9. Spanish-speaking neighborhoods in a town or city
  4. 10. a new idea or method
  5. 11. mining a method of mining by which water is sprayed at a very high pressure against a hill or mountain, washing away large quantities of dirt, gravel, and rock and exposing the minerals beneath the surface
  6. 13. farm a large, highly profitable wheat farm
  7. 14. to remove by force
Down
  1. 1. a huge ranch
  2. 3. a piece of U.S. public land acquired by filing a record and living on and cultivating it
  3. 4. a name given to Great Plains farmers
  4. 6. range vast areas of grassland owned by the federal government
  5. 7. farming a way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture
  6. 8. committee a group of ordinary citizens formed by local law enforcement officers whose goal is to find criminals and bring them to justice
  7. 12. to change in order to meet the demands of a certain environment or circumstance