Settling the Western Frontier

3. A bar or tavern in western towns where people socialized and drank.
4. A worker who herded and took care of cattle on ranches.
8. Land set aside by the government for Native American tribes.
11. Stretching or traveling across an entire continent.
12. U.S. Army officer defeated and killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.
13. A law that divided tribal lands into individual family plots to encourage farming.
16. A sudden, panicked rush of animals, especially cattle.
17. A machine powered by wind used to pump water or grind grain.

1. Plains – The flat, grassy region in the middle of the United States.
2. Pacific – The railroad company that built the eastern part of the Transcontinental Railroad.
5. A settler who received free land from the government under the Homestead Act.
6. A law that offered free land to settlers willing to farm and live on it for five years.
7. A group of covered wagons traveling together for safety while heading west.
9. The railroad company that built the western part of the Transcontinental Railroad.
10. A person searching for gold or valuable minerals.
14. Site of a massacre of Native Americans by U.S. soldiers in 1890.
15. A horse-drawn vehicle used to carry passengers and mail across long distances.