10-1 & 10-2 Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. provided a generous grant of the public lands to the states for support of education
  2. 4. width of a train track
  3. 7. a Spanish term for cowboy
  4. 8. self-appointed law enforcers
  5. 9. A new political party focused on giving the common people (like farmers and laborers) a solution to their problems and more say in their government
  6. 10. An organization to gain more political representation for farmers, raise crop prices, and reduce shipping rates on railroads
  7. 13. a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population
  8. 14. towns where cattle were held in pens until they could be loaded into railroad cars and shipped into markets in the East
  9. 15. a rich vein of gold or silver
  10. 16. African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War
Down
  1. 1. Provided free land in the West to anyone willing to settle there and develop it. Encouraged westward migration.
  2. 3. government payment to encourage or protect a certain economic activity
  3. 5. Method cowboys used to move large herds of cattle north from ranches in Texas towns along Rail Road in late 1800's.
  4. 6. Railroad Completed in 1869 at Promontory, Utah, it linked the eastern railroad system with California's railroad system, revolutionizing transportation in the west
  5. 11. Name for Plains farmers, who built their homes from sod.
  6. 12. house built of soil held together by grass roots