US History Ch 2

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Across
  1. 2. Those who plowed the Plains
  2. 6. He was known as Yellow Hair
  3. 8. A vast area of grassland the the Federal Government owned
  4. 10. huge ranches
  5. 11. Spraying water at high pressure against a hill to mine the minerals.
  6. 13. These farms were more than 65,000 acres and yielded big profits
  7. 14. A plot of land assigned to an individual or a family for specific use.
  8. 15. People who roamed the land following their food source.
  9. 16. he was a leader of the Sioux
  10. 17. Money paid by contract at regular intervals
Down
  1. 1. To absorb a group into the culture of another population
  2. 3. A vast region of prairie roughly west of the Mississippi River
  3. 4. Spanish speaking neighborhoods in a town or city.
  4. 5. A Tract of public land available for settlement
  5. 7. a new idea or method
  6. 9. Self appointed volunteers who would track down and punish wrongdoers.
  7. 12. Planting seeds deep in the ground where there was enough moisture for them to grow