Across
- 3. annual payments from the government
- 5. farms that yield big profit
- 6. 260,000 cattle drove across states and didn't survive this drive
- 10. to be absorbed
- 11. a vast area of grassland the government owned
- 13. for a $10 fee an individual can file for 160 acres of land
- 14. a tract of public land available for settlement
- 15. quickly growing towns
- 18. to process large quantities of earth for minerals
- 20. Act tried bring the Native Americans into American society by giving them land and such
Down
- 1. Spanish based neighborhoods that helped Hispanic culture
- 2. proposed creating two separate reservations of the Plains
- 4. volunteers who would track down and punish wrongdoers
- 7. those who plowed the Plains
- 8. native Americans that roam vast distances and love buffalo
- 9. explored the Great Plains in 1819 and said it was unfit for cultivation
- 12. huge ranges that covered thousands of acres
- 16. plant seeps deep in the ground to give them more moisture
- 17. traveled around the plains in giant farms filled with wheat
- 19. where families could become self-supporting