Across
- 2. inventor of barbed wire
- 5. this invention played a huge role in ending the cattle drives
- 10. breed of cattle that had roamed freely for hundreds of years in areas of Texas that was rounded as part of the cattle drives
- 11. tool used to pump fresh water out from deep underneath the dry ground on the Great Plains
- 12. Democratic candidate for president in the election of 1896 that adopted Populists policies
- 13. law passed in 1862 that gave anyone who could settle land in the Great Plains for 5 years 160 acres for only a 10 dollar filing fee
- 14. those who snuck onto the land being given away in Oklahoma earlier than was allowed in order to claim the best property
Down
- 1. inventor of the steel tipped plow
- 3. African American businessman who helped many African Americans leave Tennessee to start new lives in Kansas
- 4. those that waited until the land rush on April 22, 1889 to claim their land in Oklahoma
- 6. Republican candidate and winner of the Election of 1896
- 7. a political movement designed to appeal to the "common man"
- 8. cooperative organizations aimed at helping farmers through the economic hardships they suffered in the late 1800s
- 9. tool used to separate the good wheat grain from the useless portions known as the chaff