Across
- 3. - added to
- 5. - homes constructed of wood poles, bark, and animal skins
- 8. - cowboys drove cattle to market or to a railroad town to be shipped
- 9. - settlers who through thickly rooted grass to build homes and plant crops
- 10. - narrow strip of land connecting two landmasses
- 12. - railroad that stretched across the country
- 16. - warning to European countries not to interfere with nations in the Western Hemisphere
- 17. - natural products used in manufacturing
- 18. - directing water from a source to a place that needs it
Down
- 1. - belief that the United States should expand west until it reaches the Pacific Ocean
- 2. - a law that gave new settlers 160 acres of land for a small fee
- 4. - false or exaggerated reporting
- 6. - people who received 160 acres of land, they to build a home on that land within six months
- 7. - large movement to the west to find riches
- 11. - long periods without rain
- 13. - area of land set aside for American Indians to live on
- 14. - early settlers to a new area
- 15. - farmers conserved moisture in the soil during dry weather