Unit 8 Vocab: Cotton, Cattle & Railroads

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Across
  1. 2. Left unplanted for one or more growing seasons.
  2. 5. Separated based on membership in a racial or ethnic group.
  3. 6. A person who moves livestock overland to market.
  4. 8. Land set aside for Native Americans.
  5. 10. To make rules or laws to control something.
  6. 13. A state of enforced isolation designed to prevent the spread of disease or pests.
  7. 14. A farmer, who, in exchange for labor, is provided with seed, tools, living quarters, and food and receives a share of the value of the crop.
  8. 15. Make changes (something typically, in social, political, or economic institution or practice) in order to improve it.
Down
  1. 1. An African-American soldier serving in the western United States after the Civil War.
  2. 3. A farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop.
  3. 4. Extending or going across a continent.
  4. 7. Relating to cultivated land or cultivation of land.
  5. 9. Undeveloped land that lies beyond the border of unsettled territory.
  6. 11. Public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle.
  7. 12. The small, hardy horse of the West, descended from horses brought by the Spanish.