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