Making of America Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• homesteaders: farmers who settled for free land on the plains
• california: u.s state of the 1848/49 gold rush
• mormons: religious group who settled in salt lake, utah
• lincoln: u.s president during the civil war
• sioux: plains native american tribe
• plains: the "great", dry flat land in the centre of the usa
• confederacy: southern side in the civil war
• sumter: fort where the civil war began
• laramie: treaty continually broken by white settlers
• nomadic: lifestyle of plains indians, moving from place to place
• tears: the five civilised tribe were forced on the trail of .......
• cherokee: native american tribe forced west in 1830s
• gold: metal that caused the rush west
• reconstruction: rebuilding the south after civil war
• amendment: a change to the constitution
• purchase: 1803 land deal that doubled the usa. the louisiana ......
• sod: grass and earth houses on the plains
• barbed: sharp wire used for fencing on the plains
• buffalo: animal hunted on the plains
• cowboy: cattle worker on horseback who drove cattle to the railroads
• reservation: land set aside for native americans to live on
• union: northern side in the civil war
• grant: radical republican president who supported reconstruction. first name ulysses
• rocky: major u.s. mountain range in the west
• railroad: built across the u.s, its construction finished in 1868