gold rush

4. to discourage the plowing up of erosion-prone grasslands for use as cropland.
6. any adult citizen, could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land.
8. a vast prairie region in the west
11. citizens that called themselves the law
13. a town undergoing rapid growth due to sudden prosperity.
14. a process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society
15. A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of land
17. Chief of Oregon's Nez Perce Indians
18. a group formed by an act of Congress on July 20, 1867 to establish peace with certain hostile Indian tribes.
19. very large farms established in the western United States
20. cowboys killed buffalos so we can build railroads

1. a member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place
2. a specified income payable at stated intervals for a fixed or a contingent period,
3. a dwelling with its land occupied by the owner as a home and exempted by a homestead law
5. a piece of land deeded by the government to a North American Indian, as part of the division of tribally held land.
7. to conserve moisture by reducing or even eliminating runoff and evaporation
9. an agricultural region in which more land is devoted to the production of wheat than to any other one crop
10. a Canadian miner that found silver.
12. blasting water mixed with chemicals to find gold
16. a U.S. Army civil engineer, explorer, and inventor who help build the train.