Reconstruction Era

3. A tax that was imposed by the government to protect American businesses from foreign competition.
7. This describes the countryside and the people who live there
8. These were built with large bricks of prairie grass and dirt due to the lack of trees in the Great Plains.
9. Someone who farmed land owned by someone else in exchange for part of the income when the crop was harvested and sold.
10. A technique designed to help cultivate crops in the dry land of the Great Plains.
12. These were common sites in the west and were used to help farmers draw up spring water from deep underground.
13. This describes cities and the people who live there.
14. This is the direction the federal government was encouraging people to move.
15. Someone who farmed land owned by someone else, but provided their own supplies and seeds; they kept a larger part of the profit.
16. Before the Civil War this area of land was crossed over, but after the war many people moved to this treeless flatland.

1. The first black professional soldiers to serve in the U.S. Army during peacetime.
2. The minimum amount of time that settlers were required to leave on the land in the west per the Homestead Act.
4. The time period after the Civil War.
5. This was passed by the US government and let settlers claim land in for free in return for developing it and making a profit
6. This hardy crop grows well in dry conditions.
11. The widespread development of large-scale manufacturing and business activities.