Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 4. A ranch hand that rode horses and helped cattle.
  2. 5. Settlers who claimed land on the Great Plains under the homestead act
  3. 7. Great Plains farmer of the late 1800s who had to cut through sod, or thick grass, before planting crops.
  4. 8. When a large group of animals such as bison or cattle suddenly run fast in one direction running over most everything in their path.
  5. 9. Land set aside for Native Americans to use.
Down
  1. 1. A person who does something first.
  2. 2. The edge of a country or where few people live.
  3. 3. During the gold rush towns would spring up where gold was found
  4. 5. A peice of free land that people claimed from the government.
  5. 6. name for African American pioneers who moved to the Great Plains after the civil war.