CK Chapter 9 Review Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 1. Nickname given to towns with access to a railroad line that herds of cattle would be brought to in order to be sold (2 words)
  2. 6. The Bureau of _____ was created in 1824 to attempt to assimilate Native Americans into American culture (2 words)
  3. 9. Name given to the journey ranchers took to bring their cattle to a railhead (2 words)
  4. 11. Herds of this animal competed for grazing land with cattle out west and often at grass all the way to the root
  5. 12. Name of the type of cattle roaming freely in Texas at the end of the Civil War
  6. 14. _____ wire fences were a cheap and effective method to keep animals in or out of lands owned by settlers in the Great Plains
  7. 16. This valuable mineral was discovered on Native American lands in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1874
  8. 18. Areas the United States government set aside specifically for Native Americans to be displaced to
  9. 19. Thousands of workers from this Asian nation assisted in the building of the US Transcontinental Railroad
  10. 21. The _____ Act was created in 1862 and allowed settlers to gain 160 acres of land in the Great Plains if they farmed it for 5 years
  11. 23. The _____ Period was a time of Native American open resistance against US forces out west from 1864-1890 (2 words)
  12. 24. Nickname given to thousands of African Americans who used the Homestead Act to settle in lands in Kansas after the Civil War
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  1. 2. Site of a massacre in South Dakota of Native Americans in 1890 (2 words)
  2. 3. _____ was the most common crop grown by farmers in the Great Plains because of how well it stood up to extreme weather
  3. 4. The _____ Massacre involved a group of US soldiers killing 123 Native Americans in 1864 in Colorado that had been promised protection by the US government (2 words)
  4. 5. The largest victory for the Native Americans in the Indian Wars Period came at the Battle of the _____ on June 25, 1876 (2 words)
  5. 7. Name given to the workers on horseback that took care of cattle herds
  6. 8. Name given to the months cowboys spent patrolling the territory of their boss and keep their cattle from wandering away (3 words)
  7. 10. Official name given to a western town with access to a railroad line
  8. 11. This farming tool helped break of tough soil in the Great Plains to plant crops (2 words)
  9. 13. Massive herds of this animal were hunted almost to extinction by White American settlers in the 1800's
  10. 15. The United States bought this large Northern territory in 1867 from Russia
  11. 17. Type of railroad line that stretches across an entire continent
  12. 20. Name given to the relatively flat land reaching over 3,000 miles across US stretching to Canada (2 words)
  13. 22. Type of dance performed by Native Americans hoping for the United States to give them back their lands (2 words)