US History T3 L1 & L2 Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. _________ Act 1862 gave 160 ACRES of land to persons willing to live and cultivate it over 5 years
  2. 3. Battle of the ____ _____ _____ 1876 Sioux defeated US Army troops
  3. 4. To combine or absorb
  4. 6. Tried to escape the reservation system
  5. 8. Public lands reserved for Native American and required to live by FED law
  6. 9. Method of ranching in which the rancher allowed his or her livestock to roam and graze over a vast area of grassland
  7. 12. __________ railroad linked between the Eastern and Western US
  8. 14. Colorado militia attacked a camp of Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, come of home were under US Army protection
Down
  1. 2. War chief and spiritual leader, first chief of the Lakota Sioux tribe.
  2. 3. Mexican American group in New Mexico who attempted to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white landowners
  3. 5. African Americans who migrated form South to the East after the Civil War
  4. 7. ______ General Allotment Act 1887 law divided reservation lands into private family plots
  5. 10. Self appointed law enforcers
  6. 11. Confrontations between US and Sioux that marked the end of Indian Assistance
  7. 13. Land designated by the FED for building schools,