The West

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Across
  1. 2. Biggest economic struggle for the western settlers
  2. 3. African American U.S. troops that patrolled the Southwest from the 1867-1880s
  3. 7. Passed the homestead act
  4. 10. Industry that brought many people to the West
  5. 13. Many people moved here after they were unable to find unoccupied farmland in the U.S.
  6. 14. Who the original cowboys were
  7. 15. Could kill both cowboys and cattle - made cowboys afraid
  8. 16. Trail created by Joseph McCoy in 1867 - 1500 miles long
  9. 19. Roamed the Great Plains before they were wiped out by commercial hunting
Down
  1. 1. Name given to the ranchers in the West
  2. 4. Many people that moved west had this job
  3. 5. Law passed by Abraham Lincoln that gave free land to private citizens.
  4. 6. Industry that boomed in 1860s
  5. 8. Pop-culture name for the U.S.'s movement west
  6. 9. Another name for the mid-west
  7. 11. How people bought products from the markets on the east coast
  8. 12. Where many people were settling in the 1800s
  9. 13. Where many people immigrated from to work in mines in the U.S.
  10. 17. Age requirement to claim land
  11. 18. Author of Little House on the Prairie