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