Across
- 3. The process of taking in and fully understanding information or ideas.
- 6. A trail used in the post-Civil War era to drive cattle overland from ranches in Texas to Kansas railheads.
- 10. A convoy or train of covered horse-drawn wagons, as used by pioneers or settlers in North America.
- 11. An agreement between the United States and Mexico, finalized in 1854, in which the United States agreed to pay Mexico $10 million for a 29,670 square mile portion of Mexico that later became part of Arizona and New Mexico.
- 12. Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States.
- 13. American express mail service that used relays of horse-mounted riders.
- 15. Ethnic cleansing and forced displacement by the US government.
Down
- 1. The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a homestead.
- 2. Process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses.
- 4. A common name for the burial grounds of gunfighters, or those who "died with their boots on".
- 5. An African American cavalry soldier.
- 7. A North American Indian religious cult of the second half of the 19th century, based on the performance of a ritual dance that, it was believed, would drive away white people and restore the traditional lands and way of life.
- 8. An agency that first made its name in the late-1850s for hunting down outlaws and providing private security for railroads.
- 9. A historical event in which previously restricted land of the United States was opened for homesteading on a first-come-first-served basis.
- 14. The action of reserving something.