Across
- 3. cheap fencing, led to the end of the "open Range" because it made it possible to fence in large amounts of land.
- 4. The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas, fully adopting a culture.
- 5. gave rise to rodeos & competitions based on the skills Cowboys had developed rounding up cattle in the spring including roping and wrestling cattle.
- 8. Specific areas set aside by the government for the Indians’ use.
- 10. Migrants that were former slaves fleeing the South after Reconstruction, they typically went to Kansas or Oklahoma.
- 11. Located in New York, immigrants had to go through a port to show they were healthy, had $$, a skill or sponsor to provide for them. Usually took a matter of hours to pass through Ellis Island. Mostly European immigrants passed through Ellis Island.
- 14. A formally concluded and ratified agreement between countries.
- 15. previously a boomtown, now is no longer populated
Down
- 1. Gave squatters (migrants that settled on land they did not own) the right to buy up to 160 acres for $1.25 per acre before it was offered to other buyers.
- 2. self-appointed law enforcement
- 4. Located in San Francisco, mostly Chinese and other Asian immigrants passed through. Many came to work in the mines, on railroads farms and fisheries. Often it took weeks or months in poor conditions to see if they would be allowed to stay.
- 6. A way of life of people who do not live continually in the same place but move periodically. Different from migration.
- 7. Offered plots of 160 acres to anyone willing to live on that land for 5 years, dig a well and build a road.
- 9. established where the mining was, thrived only as long as the gold/silver held out then disappeared.
- 12. Nomadic people who lived mostly by hunting and fishing and harvesting wild food.
- 13. Decreased time to till one acre from 96 hours to 8