U.S. History Chapter 5

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Across
  1. 3. House made by stacking blocks of prairie turf
  2. 4. Machinery that sped up harvesting
  3. 5. Nationalities of immigrants who built the transcontinental railroad
  4. 6. A dangerous wound caused by a slithering reptile
  5. 9. One of the greatest writers of the late ninteenth and early twentieth century
  6. 13. Designated land managed by Native American tribes
  7. 14. Provided a social outlet for isolated farm families
  8. 15. Problem caused by animals leading to the end of the Open Range
  9. 16. Passed by congress to encourage settlement in the west
  10. 17. Dangerous travel taken by cowboys to transport their cattle
  11. 20. Cowboys could be accurately described by this term
Down
  1. 1. A plan for Native Americans to become part of white culture
  2. 2. Writer who became a Native American activist
  3. 7. Large Western grassland inhabited by Native Americans
  4. 8. Characteristic of homesteaders that lead them to rely on their own household
  5. 10. Piece of land given to railroad companies to build railroads
  6. 11. Type of society established in the west by Native Americans
  7. 12. Site on which the battle that ended the Indian Wars
  8. 18. Mined by miners to benefit the economy
  9. 19. Mexican cattle driver