Unit 9 crossword

2. A farming approach that uses careful plowing to keep loose soil on top, slowing evaporation to keep soil moist.
4. An African American soldier serving in the western United States after the Civil War.
8. A farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop.
11. A business or organization owned and operated by the people who work in it or who use its services.
13. A legal agreement in which a person borrows money to buy property and pays back the money owed over a period of years.
15. 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.
16. Separated based on membership in a racial or ethnic group.
17. A place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere.
18. The belief that it is wrong to use violence to settle conflicts.
19. The right to vote.
20. Public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle.

1. A combination of companies formed by an agreement to reduce competition.
3. Barbed-wire fence dozens of miles long used in the Texas Panhandle to mark the northern and southern limits of a rancher's land to prevent livestock from drifting off the land and wild cattle from drifting onto it and competing for food.
5. Laws discriminating against African Americans.
6. The Spanish word for "rancher"
7. A group of investors who join together to fund a business.
9. a person in charge of horses or other livestock on a ranch.
10. A person who moves livestock overland to market.
12. A reform movement that tried to correct social and political problems.
14. Extending or going across the continent.