Chapter 17 vocab
Across
- 5. range or unfenced
- 6. grants of land or money
- 7. had already sneaked onto the land
- 9. small sleds
- 11. land set aside for native Americans
- 12. kingdom region dominated by the cattle industry
- 16. cooperatives farmers who pool their money to make large purchases
- 17. general rise in prices
- 18. cone-shaped tents made of buffalo skin
- 20. plains farmers
Down
- 1. groups of farmers who met for events
- 2. railroad railroad that spanned across the continent
- 3. settlers who acquired free land from gov.
- 4. Jenning Bryan known as Great Commoner, won votes for supporting silver democrat
- 8. drive heading and moving cattle over a distance
- 10. bull Native American leader in a battle
- 13. self appointed law keepers
- 14. Spanish word for cowboy
- 15. town settlement at the end of a cattle train
- 19. surface layer of earth in which the roots of grass tangle with soil