Chapter 3: Coming to Montana

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Across
  1. 6. French, Scottish, ____ and English fur traders started coming to this area in the mid-1700s.
  2. 7. By 1900, Indian people could no longer rely on the _____ for food.
  3. 8. A quarter of Montana is a _______.
  4. 9. In 1883, the Northern Pacific Railroad completed a _______ line.
  5. 11. Between 1862 and 1865, Montana mines produced more than $90 ______ worth of gold.
  6. 13. Sometimes the government took land away from the tribes without _______.
  7. 16. Many ______ established very close relationships with Indian tribes, and many married Indian women.
  8. 18. People have lived in the place we now know as _______ for at least 12,000 years.
  9. 20. People needed good reasons - both to leave their homes and go to a specific place. Historians call these reasons “_____ _____ ______”
  10. 22. When _____ started settling the eastern United States, pushed even more tribes from their homes.
  11. 23. A shared system of behaviors, attitudes, and understandings.
  12. 24. Miners came from over ____ ____ different countries to work in Butte’s mines.
Down
  1. 1. Montana’s rich ______ made the state perfect for raising cattle and sheep.
  2. 2. Fur companies began to want _____ hides instead of beaver pelts.
  3. 3. General ______ wanted Plains Indians tribes to give up their land and their traditional ways of life.
  4. 4. Demand for _____ grew in the 1880s and 1890’s as telephones became common and people began to use electricity to light their homes, schools, and businesses.
  5. 5. In 1889, Montana became the ______ _____ state in the United States.
  6. 10. In 1860, 13 million bison lived on the ______.
  7. 12. Because Indian people did not build buildings, _____ thought the land was up for grabs.
  8. 14. By the late 1870’s, there were over five ____ towns in Montana Territory.
  9. 15. Métis men often wore ____ tied with a colorful handwoven sash.
  10. 17. In 1862, _____ found gold on Grasshopper Creek in southwest Montana.
  11. 19. ______, Montana had some of the riches copper mines in the world.
  12. 21. Three of ______ Indian reservations in Montana today are lands that the tribes reserved for themselves during these negotiations.
  13. 25. In 1900, one in _____ Montanans were born in the U.S.