Across
- 3. provided many basic needs and was central to the way of life to the Plains Indians
- 4. ________ standard backing dollars solely with gold
- 5. In 1972, the federal government created _____ national park in an effort to help conserve the frontier
- 7. African-American migrants to Kansas
- 10. _______ Act offered free western land to settlers
- 12. two railroad lines met in Promontory, ______ to form the first transcontinental railroad
- 13. movement of the people
Down
- 1. prevented animals from trampling crops and wandering off
- 2. started the Grange
- 6. invented the steel plow in 1837
- 8. ______ Act tried to "Americanize" Native Americans
- 9. ______ trail was a major cattle route from Texas to Kansas
- 11. grassland extending through the West