Across
- 2. gave 160 acres of land as long as you settled and farmed it for five years
- 6. site of the Alaskan gold rush
- 9. farmers used this to keep cattle off their land
- 10. when cattle could roam and overgraze without regulation
- 14. forcing people to adopt mainstream culture and abandon their old one
- 15. improved the quality and quantity of steel for farming
- 16. the 49er's when to California in search of this
Down
- 1. John Deere's invention
- 3. method of travel that connected East to West
- 4. another name for the West
- 5. "Where the Buffalo Roam"
- 7. belief that the United States had a duty to settle the land between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- 8. places where Natives were forced onto
- 11. Cyrus McCormick's invention
- 12. law that forced Native Americans to assimilate
- 13. towns where gold miners would set up in a hurry then abandon as ghost towns