Across
- 6. - Sought to improve the economic condition of farmers through the creation of cooperatives and political advocacy
- 8. - Animal herder who tends to cattle on US ranches, and do other ranch related work
- 11. - Free grazing of cattle on millions of unfenced acres of open land
- 13. - Breed of long horned beef cattle
- 14. - (1868) Signed between the Sioux Nation and the US Government, where the US recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. (1851) Stated that Plains Native Americans would stop inter-tribal fighting, let white migrants and railroad surveyors travel safely through their lands, allow the US government to build roads and army posts in their lands, and pay compensation to the US government if their tribe members broke these rules
- 15. - Monetary system where the basic unit of currency is defined by a stated quantity of gold
- 19. - A chief of the Sioux, who took up arms against the US settling in the Great Plains.
- 20. - Very large farms established in the western US during the late 19th century, mostly focused on making wheat
- 21. - Trail used in the post Civil War to drive cattle from Texas to Kansas
- 22. - Authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots, the objective was to assimilate the Natives into mainstream US society and to break up their cultural and social traditions.
- 23. - African Americans who fled North Carolina because of economic and political grievances after the reconstruction era
Down
- 1. - US Lawyer and Politician who advocated for free silver, a gifted debater
- 2. - Monetary system based upon the two metals gold and silver, rather then one
- 3. - Process of adopting the language and culture of a dominant social group
- 4. - A "book farmer", who learned what he knew about agriculture from reading instead of first hand learning, and help found the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, the nations largest agricultural fraternity
- 5. - 25th president of the US, from 1897 until his assassination in 1901 - president during the Spanish American war, raised protective tariffs to boost American industry, and kept the US on Gold Standard
- 7. - A long stretch of flat land, east of the Rocky Mountains, made up of prairie, steppe, and grassland.
- 9. - Herding up to thousands of cattle at a time to bring them to trains and ship them to various places across the country
- 10. - (1862) Set aside federal lands to create colleges to benefit the agricultural and mechanical arts. (1890) Prohibited distribution of money to states that made distinctions of race in admissions
- 12. - A home built out of blocks of turf
- 15. - A Union cavalry officer in the American Civil war and a US commander in wars against the Native Americans over control of the Great Plains, who led his men in the Battle of Bighorn
- 16. - Stated that any adult citizen or intended citizen that had never bore arms against the US government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land
- 17. of Wounded Knee - The slaughter of 150-300 Lakota Natives by US army troops
- 18. - Popular engagement of the population in political decision making