Across
- 3. Demand for this skyrocketed after the Civil War
- 4. This group of people are greatly responsible for building the Transcontinental Railroad
- 8. This differed greatly between white settlers and Native Americans
- 11. Give up ones own culture for the dominant culture
- 12. Discovery of this in Colorado brought tens of thousands of settlers out west
- 13. Invented the steel plow
Down
- 1. Cattle ranchers that moved cattle to the railroads for slaughter
- 2. Mass produced the reaping machine
- 5. This act gave 160 acres to settlers wiling to move out west
- 6. Land set aside for Native Americans
- 7. Primary source of survival for Native Americans - completely destroyed
- 9. Knee Mass slaughter of Native Americans
- 10. These were rapidly growing after the Civil War
- 12. Plains Vast land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains