Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 2. Movement of people toward the western U.S.
  2. 4. Struggles between settlers and Native Americans.
  3. 9. A journey to explore the Louisiana Territory.
  4. 11. A group of wagons traveling together for safety.
  5. 13. Large, open grasslands of the central U.S.
  6. 14. The edge of settled territory.
  7. 17. Events where settlers raced to claim land (e.g., Oklahoma Land Rush).
  8. 20. Gold seekers who went to California in 1849.
  9. 21. Water management technique used in dry western regions.
  10. 23. A region under U.S. control but not yet a state.
  11. 24. Efforts to integrate Native Americans into U.S. culture.
  12. 26. 1803 land deal that doubled the size of the U.S.
  13. 27. 1862 law giving free land to settlers willing to farm it.
  14. 28. Vehicle used by pioneers to carry goods westward.
  15. 30. Early settlers moving westward.
  16. 31. Someone searching for gold or other valuable resources.
  17. 32. The belief that the U.S. was destined to expand from coast to coast.
  18. 33. Act Law that led to the relocation of Native American tribes.
  19. 35. Cramped housing often found in rapidly growing cities.
  20. 36. Measuring land for sale and development.
  21. 37. The first railway to connect the east and west coasts.
Down
  1. 1. A major route that pioneers used to migrate west.
  2. 3. Rapidly growing towns during gold rushes.
  3. 5. Early economic activity driving exploration and settlement.
  4. 6. Process of absorbing Native Americans into American culture.
  5. 7. Vital animal to Native American Plains tribes.
  6. 8. Conflict that led to U.S. gaining large southwestern lands.
  7. 10. Extracting precious metals from the earth.
  8. 12. The act of adding land to a country.
  9. 15. Forced march of the Cherokee people to Indian Territory.
  10. 16. A formal agreement, especially with Native tribes.
  11. 18. People who settled on free land under the Homestead Act.
  12. 19. Abandoned town, often former boomtowns.
  13. 22. Homes made from prairie soil due to lack of wood.
  14. 25. Moving cattle from Texas to railroad towns.
  15. 29. A period of mass migration to California after gold was discovered in 1848.
  16. 33. Land set aside for displaced Native tribes (now Oklahoma).
  17. 34. Areas designated for Native Americans by the U.S. government.