Across
- 3. The Idea that westward expansion was inevitable.
- 6. Writer of "Little House on the Prairie".
- 10. Event that played a big part in starting the last Native American wars.
- 12. You could get one of these for $1.25 because of the homestead act.
- 13. An opens space for breading cattle.
- 15. This is what killed mist of the Native Americans.
- 16. White settlers hunted them to almost extinction.
- 17. Men with great horsemanship and roping skills.
- 19. Made land very cheap to encourage westward expansion.
- 20. A Lakota leader who led a Native American resistance against the US.
Down
- 1. Path created by Joseph McCoy.
- 2. Men who kept order among the west.
- 4. Invention that changed cattle farming.
- 5. A railroad that stretched across the whole nation.
- 7. Open land in the southwest part of America.
- 8. Increases movement west because of new found wealth.
- 9. Pieces of land Native Americans were forced to live on.
- 11. Year of the start of the goldrush.
- 14. Year of the end of the frontier.
- 18. Season that killed lots of cattle in 1886.