Westward Expansion Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
  2. 5. crop production without irrigation during a dry season
  3. 6. large-scale operations, mostly cultivating and harvesting wheat.
  4. 10. A. Custer led his men in one of U.S. history's most controversial battles, the Battle of the Little Bighorn
  5. 11. the process of taking individuals or social groups and absorbing them into mainstream culture.
  6. 12. the land was home to many tribes of Native Indigenous peoples
  7. 13. Led his tribe called the Wallowa band of Nez Perce
Down
  1. 1. A plot of land made available for individual
  2. 2. rangeland where cattle roam freely regardless of land ownership.
  3. 4. high-pressure jets of water to dislodge rock material or move sediment.
  4. 7. provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land.
  5. 8. to "bust" soil easily.
  6. 9. A person who moves from place to place
  7. 14. A Canadian miner after whom the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada, was named