Across
- 3. Klux Klan: White supremacist group opposing Reconstruction efforts.
- 5. Johnson: President impeached during Reconstruction.
- 10. South: Post-war modernization effort in the South.
- 11. Settlers farming under the Homestead Act.
- 14. Railroad: Connected the U.S. coast-to-coast by rail in 1869.
- 16. Designated lands for relocated Native tribes.
- 18. Amendments: 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments.
- 19. Codes: Restrictive laws on African Americans post-Civil War.
- 21. Knee: 1890 massacre of Lakota Sioux.
- 22. Farming: Renting land for farming, often financially difficult.
- 23. Indians: Tribes reliant on buffalo, affected by westward expansion.
- 25. Immigrants: Vital builders of the western railroads, faced discrimination.
Down
- 1. Essential to Plains Indians' way of life.
- 2. Reconstruction: Lenient reunification led by Johnson and Lincoln.
- 4. Bureau: Agency aiding freed slaves post-war.
- 6. Act: 1862 law offering 160 acres for settlement and farming.
- 7. Post-Civil War rebuilding and rights expansion (1865–1877).
- 8. Formerly enslaved individuals freed by the 13th Amendment.
- 9. of Little Bighorn: 1876 Native American victory over Custer.
- 12. Labor system keeping freedmen in debt cycles.
- 13. Reconstruction: Radical Republicans’ civil rights focus.
- 15. Wire: Invention that ended the open range.
- 17. B. Hayes: 19th President; his election ended Reconstruction.
- 20. of 1877: Agreement removing troops, ending Reconstruction.
- 24. Bull: Sioux leader at Little Bighorn.
- 25. Drove cattle to rail hubs, symbols of the Wild West.