Crossword 11.3: Ranchers and Farmers (Pages 513-518)

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Across
  1. 2. inventor of barbed wire
  2. 5. this invention played a huge role in ending the cattle drives
  3. 10. breed of cattle that had roamed freely for hundreds of years in areas of Texas that was rounded as part of the cattle drives
  4. 11. tool used to pump fresh water out from deep underneath the dry ground on the Great Plains
  5. 12. Democratic candidate for president in the election of 1896 that adopted Populists policies
  6. 13. law passed in 1862 that gave anyone who could settle land in the Great Plains for 5 years 160 acres for only a 10 dollar filing fee
  7. 14. those who snuck onto the land being given away in Oklahoma earlier than was allowed in order to claim the best property
Down
  1. 1. inventor of the steel tipped plow
  2. 3. African American businessman who helped many African Americans leave Tennessee to start new lives in Kansas
  3. 4. those that waited until the land rush on April 22, 1889 to claim their land in Oklahoma
  4. 6. Republican candidate and winner of the Election of 1896
  5. 7. a political movement designed to appeal to the "common man"
  6. 8. cooperative organizations aimed at helping farmers through the economic hardships they suffered in the late 1800s
  7. 9. tool used to separate the good wheat grain from the useless portions known as the chaff