chapter 13; western frontier

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Across
  1. 3. Populist presidential candidate from Nebraska who delivered the "cross of gold" speech; defeated by Mckinley
  2. 5. Was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in that year
  3. 10. attempt to Americanize native Americans
  4. 12. the movement of cattle to market
  5. 13. Mexican cowboys
  6. 15. general defeated by sitting bull
  7. 16. gave citizens 160 acres of free land to encourage settlement
  8. 18. sioux leader wanted settlers to leave the sioux territory
  9. 19. plan for native americans to give up their culture for white culture
  10. 22. type of cattle
  11. 23. Provided only a temporary halt to warfare
  12. 25. south Dakota slaughtered 300 unarmed native americans
  13. 26. The attack at dawn on November 29, 1864 killed over 150 inhabitants, mostly women and children
  14. 27. The popular name for a farmer' organization started by Oliver Hudson Kelley in 1867
  15. 28. The backing of paper currency with gold only
Down
  1. 1. The railroad that connects the East and the West. It provided faster and safer transportation. There was also a faster spread of ideas and expansion in the United States
  2. 2. Called for bimetallism and free coinage of silver
  3. 4. dugout home on plains
  4. 6. the african americans who moved from post reconstruction south to Kansas
  5. 7. Huge single-crop farms run by investors and railroad companies; created when farmers went bankrupt
  6. 8. the major cattle route from San antonio, Texas through Oklahoma to Kansas
  7. 9. Written in 1881 by a well known author Helen Hunt Jackson and it exposed the government's many broken promises
  8. 11. Native Americans made tepees from buffalo hides and also used the skins for clothing, shoes, and blankets
  9. 14. These groups included many others who sympathized with farmers. Alliances sent lecturers from town to town to educate people about topics such as lower interest rates on loans and government control over railroads and banks
  10. 17. A monetary system that gave citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency
  11. 20. The "people's reform movement to lift farmers' debt and give them more power; also 8-hour workday
  12. 21. The laws of 1862 and 1890 that gave federal land to states to finance agricultural colleges
  13. 24. home to the native Americans