history crossword
Across
- 3. Groups of framers who pooled their money to make large purchases of tools, seeds, and other supplies at discounts
- 5. Mexican cowboy
- 8. the region dominated by the cattle industry and its ranches, trails and cow towns
- 9. cattle drives from Texas to railway towns in Kansas
- 12. settlers who acquired free land from the govt
- 13. Plains farmers who used steel plows and drills
- 14. A political party that pushed for reforms (social & economic), demanded public ownership of RRs, and generally supported the interest of farmers and workers
- 15. used to harvest crops
- 16. Candidate for president in 1896 who represented the interests of big business and bankers
- 17. towns in Kansas where cattle were driven to and loaded onto trains for transport, usually back east
- 18. Early settlers of the OK land rush of 1889
Down
- 1. used to take the coverings off the grain
- 2. A law passed by Congress in 1862 offering 160-acre plots of land to anyone who resided on the land for 5 years, worked the land, and built a home.
- 4. formed in late 1870's, helped farmers establish farm cooperatives, they pooled their money together to make larger purchase of tools and seed
- 6. untended land where cattle were left to graze
- 7. African American settlers (70,000) who migrated from the south to the Great Plains, especially Kansas. Many became farmers.
- 10. Groups of farmers who met and supported one another
- 11. Candidate for president in 1896 who represented the interests of famers and workers
- 13. invented by John Deere, it was good for breaking up the tough sod