Across
- 2. / Spanish for a cowboy; a cattle driver
- 4. Act / Allowed the federal government to divide reservations into small plots of land for individual natives.
- 5. Farming / A way of farming dry land in which seeds are planted deep in the ground where there is some moisture
- 7. Railroad / Rail line that connected the Eastern United States to the Western United States
- 10. / an artistic and intellectual movement characterized by a heightened interest in nature. It emphasized individual expression of emotion and imagination.
- 13. Appropriations Act / This law ended treaty making between tribes and the government
- 14. / To acquire a piece of U.S. Public Land by living on and cultivating
- 15. Domain / Land owned by the government
- 16. / A man, typically one on horseback, who herds and tends cattle, especially in the western US and as represented in westerns and novels.
- 17. / A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas
- 18. Novels / exaggerated accounts of real incidents and serious works of fiction added to the myth of western life
- 19. / Denoting lines of poetry with a specified number of feet or measures.
- 20. / A name given to the Plains farmer
Down
- 1. / a strong and fast-moving stream of water or other liquid.
- 3. / Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words, especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
- 6. Railway Act / Authorized land grants and loans that allowed for the Transcontinental Railroad
- 8. / A ballad in a traditional Mexican style, typically having lyrics that narrate a historical event.
- 9. / The process of adapting or adjusting to the culture of a group or nation.
- 11. Savage / a portrayal of the Native American as embodying the virtues of wilderness life untouched by civilization.
- 12. Destiny / the nineteenth-century doctrine that the U.S. had the right and duty to expand throughout the North American continent.