Across
- 3. A social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th century
- 4. the leader of Hunkpapa Sioux who never signed the treaty of fort laramie
- 11. a breed of sturdy, long-horned cattle brought by the Spanish to mexico and suited to the dry conditions of the Southwest
- 12. a home built of blocks or turf
- 14. the treaty requiring ended the War of 1812
- 15. groups of farmers, or those in sympathy with farming issues, who sent lecturers from town to town to educate people about agricultural and rural issues
- 16. the person who delivered the "Cross of gold" speech at the Democratic convention
- 17. who the Republican Party nominated at the 1896 campaign
- 20. the massacre by U.S soldiers of 300 unarmed Native Americans at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, in 1890
- 23. a U.S law enacted in 1862, that provided 160 acres in the West to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of household and would cultivate the land for five years
Down
- 1. the person who started the Patrons of Husbandry
- 2. an enormus farm on which a single crop is grown
- 5. a monetary system in which the basic unit of currency is defined in terms of a set amount of gold
- 6. the major cattle route from san antonio, Texas, through oklahoma to kansas
- 7. created a gold rush when he reported that the Black Hills had gold “from the grass roots down”
- 8. the moving of cattle over trails to a shipping center
- 9. an African American who migrated from the South to Kansas in the post-Reconstruction years
- 10. a minority group's adoption of the belifs and way of life of the dominant culture
- 13. the vast grassland that extends through the central portion of North America from Texas northward to Canada, east of the Rocky Mountains
- 18. the use of both gold and silver as a basis for a national monetary system
- 19. laws enacted in 1862 and 1890 to help create agricultural colleges by giving federal land to states
- 21. a law enacted in 1887 that was intended to "Americanize" Native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners
- 22. a late-19th-century political movement demanding that people have a greater voice in government and seeking to advance the interests of farmers and laborers
