Across
- 3. method of farming in areas with little rainfall
- 7. machine that helped harvest crops faster
- 10. person who starts a business
- 14. workers from China who helped build the railroads
- 15. African Americans who moved west for freedom
- 17. process of Native Americans being forced to adopt white culture
- 18. land set aside by the government for Native Americans
- 19. moving cattle long distances to markets
Down
- 1. railroad that connected the East and West coasts
- 2. law giving free farmland to settlers in 1862
- 4. belief that the United States should expand west
- 5. tool that made farming hard soil possible
- 6. fencing that ended open-range farming
- 8. movement of people from one region to another
- 9. final spike driven to complete the Transcontinental Railroad
- 11. early communication system that sent messages long distance
- 12. person who moves from another country to live here
- 13. schools created to teach Native Americans European-American culture
- 14. dangerous route around the tip of South America used before the railroad
- 16. people who moved west to start farms