VA/US History
Across
- 4. the action of reserving something.
- 5. the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
- 7. a man, typically one on horseback, who herds and tends cattleCattledrives
- 9. a track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run.
- 10. wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction
- 12. take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully.
- 14. extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth
- 17. a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire
- 19. the largest continent in the world by both land area and population
- 20. a person involved in the ownership and management of industry.
Down
- 1. a mechanical, semi-automated device that harvests crops
- 2. the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people
- 3. continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere
- 6. It allowed farmers to cultivate crops more efficiently because the smooth texture of the steel blade
- 8. the activity or business of breeding cattle on a ranch.
- 11. a member of any of the indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America
- 13. a series of armed conflicts between various Apache tribes
- 15. the act or process of working the ground, planting seeds, and growing edible plants
- 16. the act or state of settling or the state of being settledHomesteadact
- 18. the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.