Unit 1: The West

2. The first treaty signed with the Plains Indians to allow Americans to travel through and use Native American lands
3. The long journeys from grazing land to cattle markets and railroad stations.
6. Towns or communities that developed quickly in areas where mines were located.
8. The term for a railroad that connected the East Coast of the United States to the West Coast.
10. ownership of land and water resources on the Great Plains.
11. Large discovery of gold and silver in Nevada in 1859.
14. Mexican ranch hands who taught cowboys how to use saddles, lariats, and other ranching tools.

1. The law passed to give 160 acres of land to any American citizen who agreed to farm it.
4. Areas of federal land set aside for Native American tribes to live on.
5. A large deposit of precious ores or minerals.
7. Nickname for the first farmers on the Great Plains.
9. Conflicts between competing ranchers to fence of and claim grazing lands in the Great Plains.
12. Unowned public grazing land in the Great Plains.
13. Trail used for cattle drives from Texas to Kansas.