Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 1. State that the majority of Exodusters headed for
  2. 3. railroad that linked eastern and western rail networks
  3. 6. Hobbit that found the Ring of Power in a cave under the Misty Mountains
  4. 7. Act that forced Native Americans to assimilate
  5. 9. Site of the battle between the Sioux and American Cavalry
  6. 10. Lieutenant that led his men against the Sioux and were all killed
  7. 13. Ceremony that the Lakota Sioux believed would restart the world
  8. 14. Site of a massacre of Native Americans by the army
  9. 16. silver mine that produced $300 million in silver
  10. 17. What would be left behind after a mine went "bust"
  11. 18. Leader of the Exodusters
Down
  1. 2. process by which a person or group adopts another dominate culture
  2. 4. Animals that Plains Indians relied on for food and resources
  3. 5. President that signed the Homestead Act
  4. 8. Leader of the Lakota Sioux
  5. 11. Homesteads that were made of sod instead of wood
  6. 12. Settlers got 160 for free through the Homestead Act
  7. 15. Act that encouraged Americans to settle West by giving free land
  8. 19. created after the transcontinental railroad was formed