Post Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. Signed by Lincoln in 1862, for a small fee a person could obtain 160 acres if they met certain conditions
  2. 7. When Colonel John Chivington, attacked with 700 men against the helpless Cheyenne, he killed 500 women and children
  3. 8. Equal distribution of wealth
  4. 9. One of the 1st labor unions, worked towards reforms of equal pay,no child labor etc.
  5. 13. Two engines put in the front of a train
  6. 14. A way of getting around monopoly laws, owning 51% of a business
  7. 17. Survival of the fittest in business
  8. 18. In loose association of businesses
  9. 19. Non-Interference by the government
  10. 21. A symbol of America's power and progress
  11. 22. The new process of burning out impurities to make better metal
  12. 24. Pullman A man who was successful in producing sleeping cars
  13. 25. A man who tried to obtain better wages, working hours etc.
  14. 27. Company drops prices to drive other out of business, then buys them out
  15. 28. when a company is in complete control of a service or product
  16. 29. An that gave indian families 160 acres of land
  17. 31. An anarchist who tried to assassinate Henry Frick
Down
  1. 1. People who bought large areas of land in hope of selling in later for a profit
  2. 2. Henry Frick cut wages at Carnegie steel, then their was a strike
  3. 4. Owner of Carnegie steel
  4. 5. Workers went out on strike in support of 8 hour work days
  5. 6. Make more stuff and sell if really cheap to gain control of a product
  6. 10. Land was measured so you knew exactly what you owned
  7. 11. People who stripped the world of its natural resources
  8. 12. A big labor union at the time
  9. 15. When custer and 200 men took on a force of 2000 indians at a river
  10. 16. As production increases the cost of each item produced is lower
  11. 20. People who lost everything during the civil war and were forced to move
  12. 23. 260,000 railroad workers went on strike to protest the wage cuts
  13. 26. Land--people's dream was to own land
  14. 30. Indians on reservation performed a sacred dance, the soldiers thought it was an uprising so they shot and killed 200 defenseless indians