Chapter 4 Westward Expansion Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 8. proposed creating two large reservations on the Plains,
  2. 9. to be absorbed, into American society as landowners and citizens
  3. 11. using water to mine
  4. 12. Lieutenant Colonel sent on the expedition to the Bighorn Mountains
  5. 16. planting seeds deep in the ground where there is enough moisture for the crops to grow
  6. 17. quickly growing towns
  7. 19. he explored the region with an army expedition in 1819
Down
  1. 1. this Act helped the farmers move west
  2. 2. 10,000 acre farms specializing in single cash crops
  3. 3. Native Americans who roamed vast distances
  4. 4. a tract of public land available for settlement
  5. 5. a vast area of grassland that federal government owned
  6. 6. a prospector who discovered silver and got rich
  7. 7. self-appointed volunteers who would track down and punish wrong-doers
  8. 10. an Act allotted to each head of household 160 acres of reservation land for farming
  9. 13. Nez Perce leader
  10. 14. annual payments from the government
  11. 15. a piece of land deeded by the government to a North American Indian
  12. 18. a farmer who plows the land