Westward Expansion

2. Land set aside by the government for Native American tribes
4. A major silver discovery that led to Nevada’s statehood
5. Nez Perce leader who surrendered saying, "I will fight no more forever"
6. 1866 battle where Native Americans killed U.S. soldiers in Wyoming
8. Mexican cowboys who taught American cowboys their trade
13. Site of a massacre that marked the end of Native American resistance
15. A rapidly growing town due to mining or economic activity
18. Connected the East and West, boosting settlement and trade
22. Became a territory only after the railroad passed through
23. 1890 event where U.S. troops killed hundreds of Lakota Sioux
24. The final spike that completed the transcontinental railroad at Promontory Point
25. Homes built by settlers using packed dirt due to lack of trees
27. Famous cattle route from Texas to Kansas
28. Law signed by Abraham Lincoln that funded the building of the transcontinental railroad
29. Battle where Sioux and Cheyenne warriors defeated General Custer
30. Essential animal for Plains Native Americans, nearly hunted to extinction

1. The belief that Americans were meant to expand across the continent
3. A person who took the law into their own hands in the West
7. Fencing material that ended the open range system
9. Religious movement believed to restore Native American way of life
10. African Americans who moved west after the Civil War for new opportunities
11. A nickname for farmers on the Great Plains who plowed through tough soil
12. A town abandoned after a mining bust
14. The long journey cowboys took to move livestock to market
16. Agreement that promised land to Native Americans but was later broken
17. Provided settlers with 160 acres of land if they farmed it for five years
19. Unfenced land used by ranchers to graze cattle
20. Law that broke up tribal lands and aimed to assimilate Native Americans
21. President who signed the Pacific Railway Act
26. A period when gold, silver, and other resources attracted people west