Cultures Clash on the Prairie Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Westward Expansion & Industrialization has 12 clues. Answers range from 7 to 19 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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broad expanse of flat land.
was an agreement between the United States and the Oglala and other more.
a Native American leader.
was a United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the Civil War.
the process of taking in and fully understanding information.
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
the last major confrontation (1890) between the US Army and North American Indians, at the village of Wounded Knee on a reservation in South Dakota. More than 150 largely unarmed Sioux men, women, and children were massacred.
an animal of a breed of cattle with long horns
a historic route over which 19th-century cowboys drove cattle for 1,500 miles (2,400 km) north from Texas to Abilene and other Kansas cities that had been reached by developing railroads.
At the close of the Civil War, large herds of longhorn cattle roamed freely throughout Texas. High meat prices in eastern cities attracted a variety of entrepreneurs and prompted cattlemen to search for a way to bring them to market.
Act, A law passed in the 1860s that offered up to 160 acres of public land to any head of a family who paid a registration fee, lived on the land for five years, and cultivated it or built on it.
an act provided each state with 30,000 acres of Federal land for each member in their Congressional delegation.

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