Across
- 3. drive a trip of several hundred miles on which ranchers led their cattle to railroads and distant markers
- 5. a community that grows in sudden rapid population and economy
- 8. zone a geographical region in which the same standard time is used
- 12. an appeal to the common people
- 13. going across a continent
- 15. tents that were traditionally used by Indigenous peoples of North American Plains
- 16. an area of land set aside for use by a group
- 17. a mode of transportation
Down
- 1. a cowhand of hispanic origin
- 2. Summit Utah Territory where the first transcontinental railroad was completed and located
- 4. money or goods given by a person or government to support a project that benefits the public
- 6. Land Rush when Americans lined at up at the border of unassigned land and rushed into hoping to stake claim
- 7. name given to early Great Plains Pioneers
- 9. Bull a leader of the Lakota Sioux
- 10. Act encourage settlement on the great plains, gave up 160 acres of land to the head of family if they paid a $10 filing fee and lived on the land for 5 years
- 11. Knee marked the end of armed conflict between the U.S government and Native Americans, 200 Sioux died and 25 soldiers died
- 14. Grange a network of local farmers’ groups