Across
- 5. An area in the Great Plains where ranchers raised livestock in the late 1800’s.
- 8. farmers in the Great Plains who worked hard to break up the regions tough sod.
- 9. a transportation system that crosses the United States.
- 10. law passed in 1862 by congress to encourage settlement in the west by giving government owned lands to farmers.
- 11. an undeveloped area.
- 12. a federal lands set aside for American Indians.
Down
- 1. “Custer’s Last Stand”, battle between US soldiers and Sioux warriors that resulted in the worst defeat for the US army in the west.
- 2. the US army’s killing of 150 Sioux Indians in South Dakota ending the US/Ik brian wars on the Great Plains.
- 3. A western community that grew too quickly because of mining. The communities often disappeared when mining resources ran out.
- 4. African Americans who served in the US cavalry during the wars for the west.
- 6. a religious movement that spread among native Americans living in the Great Plains during the 1880’s.
- 7. laws passed by congress that split up Indian reservation lands among individual Indians and promised them citizenship.