Navtaj's Homestead Act Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. You had to be this many years old to file for land
  2. 4. See question 13
  3. 7. The last family in Washington to use the Homestead Act
  4. 8. People from different countries looking for land
  5. 11. The ___ Culture Act granted homesteaders 160 acres of land if they planted at least 40 acres of trees within 10 years. Common in eastern Washington
  6. 13. With question 4, the people who marked the Oregon Trail
  7. 14. The first family in Washington to use the Homestead Act
  8. 15. Century the Homestead Act was signed
  9. 16. Fruit grown in Olympic Peninsula because land bought there is not dry
  10. 18. Without these, it was hard to get healthcare in Washington, resulting in lots of people dying
  11. 20. These were added to Washington as a result of people moving there
  12. 23. This amount of millions of acres freed for land
  13. 24. Land in Eastern Washington was too ___ to farm
Down
  1. 1. Native Americans were forced to crowd into these
  2. 3. New method of farming developed due to the dry farmland in Washington bought in the homestead act
  3. 5. One of the reasons why people left their land
  4. 6. Around this many million people used the Homestead Act
  5. 9. River land bought in the Homestead Act was west of
  6. 10. The first thing made on new land
  7. 12. Name of the first family to use the Homestead Act
  8. 14. Last name of the president who signed the Homestead Act
  9. 17. Month the Homestead Act was signed
  10. 18. Homesteaders who were farmers made up this much of the work force in Washington
  11. 19. Name of trail used to travel to new land
  12. 21. Gained by Washington due to the increase in population due to homesteaders moving there
  13. 22. Land act meant to encourage cultivating dry land in Eastern Washington that caused more people to start farming