History Ch.8 (8.5-8.8)

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Across
  1. 2. The western territory that was ready to be settled but had not yet became a state.
  2. 3. The rush to claim pieces of the Unassigned Lands in the Oklahoma Territory
  3. 8. the leader of the Sioux nation during the battle of Little Bighorn.
  4. 9. The Process of herding cattle to the nearest cow town.
  5. 13. The U.S. Army general, who died at the battle of Little Bighorn.
  6. 16. The place where the two rail road company’s met and finished the transcontinental rail road.
  7. 18. A town with a railroad to transport cattle.
Down
  1. 1. A rail road that crosses the continental from coast to coast.
  2. 4. Men hired by a rancher to care for cattle.
  3. 5. The 1890s incident in which over 200 Native American men, women, and children if the Lakota tribe, lead by Chief Big Foot, where killed by the U.S. Army.
  4. 6. the 1924 law that made Native American citizens of the United States.
  5. 7. the law that made Large areas of land available to Native Americans.
  6. 10. a battle led by Chief Crazy Horse in which an entire unit US soldiers died; also called Custer‘s last stand.
  7. 11. a law that broke up tribal lands into separate plots and offered them to any US citizen or any head of a native American family who would take up farming or ranching.
  8. 12. The fights between western farmers and ranchers over grazing and water rights.
  9. 14. The trail for cattle drives from Texas to Abilene, Kansas.
  10. 15. that parts of the Oklahoma Territory that were not assigned to Native American tribes.
  11. 17. large sections of land set aside by the US government for Native American tribes.