Westward Migration and Native Americans
Across
- 2. fencing that controlled animals and divided land
- 6. animal central to Native American life on the Great Plains
- 7. agreements between Native tribes and the U.S. government
- 9. farming tool improved to break tough prairie soil
- 10. clashes between settlers and Native Americans over land
- 12. movement of people from one country to another
- 13. livestock that were fenced in with barbed wire
- 14. unsettled land at the edge of American expansion
- 16. transportation that connected the East and West
- 17. material used to make stronger plows for farming
Down
- 1. land set aside by the U.S. government for Native Americans
- 3. growth of U.S. territory westward across the continent
- 4. activity that nearly drove the buffalo to extinction
- 5. worker who drove cattle across long trails to railroads
- 8. mineral that drove migration and caused Native land loss
- 9. settler who moved west to farm or find new opportunity
- 11. wide, flat grasslands
- 15. business and factories that processed buffalo hides