Western Frontier Crossword

4. / A name given to the Plains farmer
7. Farming / A way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture
10. Destiny / the nineteenth-century doctrine that the U.S. had the right and duty to expand throughout the North American continent.
11. Railway Act / Authorized land grants and loans that allowed for the Transcontinental Railroad
12. / Spanish for a cowboy; a cattle driver
14. Act / Allowed the federal government to divide reservations into small plots of land for individual natives.
16. Railroad / Rail line that connected the Eastern United States to the Western United States
17. / a strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid.
18. Domain / Land owned by the government
19. / A man, typically one on horseback, who herds and tends cattle, especially in the western US and as represented in westerns and novels.
20. / Denoting lines of poetry with a specified number of feet or measures.

1. Savage / a portrayal of the Native American as embodying the virtues of wilderness life untouched by civilization.
2. / The process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation.
3. / Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
5. / A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
6. / To acquire a piece of U.S. Public Land by living on and cultivating
8. Novels / exaggerated accounts of real incidents and serious works of fiction added to the myth of western life
9. Appropriations Act / This law ended treaty making between tribes and the government
13. / an artistic and intellectual movement characterized by a heightened interest in nature. It emphasized individual expression of emotion and imagination.
15. / A ballad in a traditional Mexican style, typically having lyrics that narrate a historical event.