Westward Expansion

3. an area of land set aside for occupation by North American Indians
8. engagement in or the activities involved in war or conflict.
10. the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
12. a place where passengers and cargo are exchanged between vehicles or between transport modes.
14. American Apache Indian chief.
15. something, typically a process or device, that has been invented
18. encouraged Western migration by providing settlers 160 acres of public land

1. (something) suitable for a new use or purpose; modify.
2. the surface of the ground, with the grass growing on it.
4. Natives to America
5. materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.
6. a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans
7. Chief of Oregon 's Nez Perce Indians who led his people in the 1870s on a desperate attempt to reach Canada rather than submit to forcible settlement on a reservation
9. The battle between U.S. military troops and Lakota Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota on December 29, 1890, resulted in the deaths of perhaps 300 Sioux men, women, and children. The massacre at Wounded Knee was the last major battle of the Indian Wars of the late 19th century.
11. Incremental improvement in the known methods of production.
13. A Native American leader of the Sioux tribe in the late nineteenth century. He was a chief and medicine man when the Sioux took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States army troops
16. a formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries.
17. A broad expanse of flatlands covered in prairie, steppe and flatlands