This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Westward Expansion & Industrialization has 16 clues. Answers range from 5 to 21 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas
US soldiers massacred 300 unarmed Native American in 1890. This ended the Indian Wars.
a breed of sturdy, long-horned cattle brought by the Spanish to Mexico and suited to the dry conditions of the southwest
allowed farmers and ranchers to keep animals separate from crops.
was a type of farming developed by plowing deeply into the soil.
Battle during which the Sioux Tribe defeated the U.S. Army forces led by Colonel George A. Custer.
A chief of the Sioux;took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States Army troops; he was present at the battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when the Sioux massacred General Custer's troops
A chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn
Sacred burial ground for the Sioux Indians
160 free acres of Landon the west offered to any head of household
Homes made from hardened mud and grass blocks
15-50 thousand acres of single crops
According to Piaget, the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors
animal that supplied the Plains Indians with most of their needs.
men who moved cattle from place to place.
occupation that government agents wanted Native Americans to take up.