Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 2. gave 160 acres of land as long as you settled and farmed it for five years
  2. 6. site of the Alaskan gold rush
  3. 9. farmers used this to keep cattle off their land
  4. 10. when cattle could roam and overgraze without regulation
  5. 14. forcing people to adopt mainstream culture and abandon their old one
  6. 15. improved the quality and quantity of steel for farming
  7. 16. the 49er's when to California in search of this
Down
  1. 1. John Deere's invention
  2. 3. method of travel that connected East to West
  3. 4. another name for the West
  4. 5. "Where the Buffalo Roam"
  5. 7. belief that the United States had a duty to settle the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific
  6. 8. places where Natives were forced onto
  7. 11. Cyrus McCormick's invention
  8. 12. law that forced Native Americans to assimilate
  9. 13. towns where gold miners would set up in a hurry then abandon as ghost towns