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- 4. People who plowed the soil on the Plains were called?
- 6. Perce/ Adopted White Ways and helped Lewis and Clark Expedition
- 7. Who refused to end the Ghost Dance?
- 9. Houses named after the mechanical musical instrument, where women danced with men for the price of a drink.
- 12. Peak/ The discovery of gold near ____ in 1858 set miners on a fantic rush.
- 13. Custer/ Commander of the Seventh Cavalry, underestimated the fighting capabilities of the Lakota and Cheyenne.
- 14. Range/ A vast area of grassland owned by the government.
- 16. Plains/ By the 1860s, the railroad had reached the _____.
- 17. Belt/ Borrowed money to buy innovative equipment, which made dry farming possible.
- 18. Farms/ Huge acreage yielded huge profits (commercial farms).
- 19. Farming/ Method to plant seeds deep in the ground where there was enough moisture for them to grow.
- 20. Payments to reservation dwellers, at least once per year.
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- 1. Act/ This act allotted to each head of household 160 acres of reservation land for farming.
- 2. Peace Commission/ Proposed creating two large reservations on the Plains, one for the Sioux and another for southern Plain Indians.
- 3. Comstock/ In 1859 a prospector named _____ staked a claim in Six-Mile Canyon, Nevada.
- 5. Creek Massacre/ 1864, Natives killed 200 settlers, and mining camps ambushed.
- 8. Prices plunge when what continent is not at war?
- 10. Room/ Name for the West’s first elevator.
- 11. A tract of public land available for settlement.
- 15. What city becomes the hub for crossroads?