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Across
  1. 3. leave one's own country in order to settle permanently in another.
  2. 6. provided 160 acres of federal land to anyone who agreed to farm the land.
  3. 9. a right or interest retained in an estate being conveyed.
  4. 11. the process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
  5. 18. a series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 in an alliance of Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States.
  6. 19. an often used alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States
  7. 20. a large area of grazing land without fences or other barriers.
  8. 21. come to live permanently in a foreign country.
  9. 23. a rich source of something.
  10. 26. Native Americans into mainstream US society by encouraging them towards farming and agriculture,
  11. 27. The federal government aimed to
  12. 28. a train route across the United States that was finished in 1869.
  13. 29. a member of a self-appointed group of citizens who undertake law enforcement in their community without legal authority, typically because the legal agencies are thought to be inadequate.
Down
  1. 1. drive the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses.
  2. 2. (in US history) an African American cavalry soldier.
  3. 4. a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War
  4. 5. a cowboy; a cattle driver.
  5. 7. involving mutual assistance in working toward a common goal.
  6. 8. large-scale black migration from the South to Kansas
  7. 10. gun
  8. 12. a farmer or farm worker who plows the land.
  9. 13. race began with a pistol shot, and those who jumped
  10. 14. a town or city in a cattle-raising area of western North America.
  11. 15. the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
  12. 16. U.S. soldiers surrounded and slaughtered about 300 Lakota men, women, and children
  13. 17. fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors
  14. 22. gather together and confine
  15. 24. a portable conical tent made of skins, cloth, or canvas on a frame of poles, used by North American Indians of the Plains and Great Lakes regions.
  16. 25. a humpbacked shaggy-haired wild ox native to North America and Europe.