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- 4. agency first made its name in the late-1850s for hunting down outlaws and providing private security for railroads
- 6. the process of a group's language and/or culture coming to resemble those of another group
- 8. the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses
- 10. a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, and mail using relays of horse-mounted riders
- 11. a North American Indian religious cult of the second half of the 19th century, based on the performance of a ritual dance that, it was believed, would drive away white people and restore the traditional lands and way of life
- 13. enacted during the Civil War in 1862, provided that any adult citizen,who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of government land.
- 15. an African American cavalry soldier.
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- 1. the 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
- 2. name of many cemeteries, chiefly in the Western United States. During the 19th and early 20th century
- 3. a convoy or train of covered horse-drawn wagons, as used by pioneers or settlers in North America.
- 5. federally recognized Native American tribe under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs rather than the state governments of the United States in which they are physically located.
- 7. an event in which previously restricted land of the United States was opened to homestead on a first-arrival basis.
- 9. 1887 regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States
- 12. a man, typically one on horseback, who herds and tends cattle, especially in the western US
- 14. a trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads.