Civil War to Late 1800s

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Across
  1. 3. Falling crop prices hurt many of these people
  2. 5. War between the northern and southern states
  3. 8. Policy to rebuild the South after the Civil War
  4. 10. First transcontinental railroad
  5. 12. Group of people who moved to settle the Great Plains
  6. 15. Increase in prices and wages
  7. 17. A populist demand for unlimited coinage of silver
Down
  1. 1. U.S. government policy to force Native Americans onto reservations
  2. 2. Law that aimed to assimilate Native Americans by redistributing reservation land to individual Native American families
  3. 4. Populist demand for government control of these essential resources
  4. 6. Organization formed by farmers to fight for economic reforms
  5. 7. A major cash crop for Plains farmers
  6. 9. Rapid increase in cattle herds in the late 1800s
  7. 11. Homestead Act allowed settlers to claim this
  8. 13. Populist demand for direct election of these legislators
  9. 14. Populist leader who ran for president in 1896
  10. 16. Freed slaves after the Civil War