Post Civil War

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Across
  1. 3. Land--people's dream was to own land
  2. 8. Workers went out on strike in support of 8 hour work days
  3. 11. An that gave indian families 160 acres of land
  4. 13. When Colonel John Chivington, attacked with 700 men against the helpless Cheyenne, he killed 500 women and children
  5. 15. When custer and 200 men took on a force of 2000 indians at a river
  6. 16. The new process of burning out impurities to make better metal
  7. 18. when a company is in complete control of a service or product
  8. 19. Two engines put in the front of a train
  9. 21. Survival of the fittest in business
  10. 22. An anarchist who tried to assassinate Henry Frick
  11. 23. People who bought large areas of land in hope of selling in later for a profit
  12. 24. As production increases the cost of each item produced is lower
  13. 26. Company drops prices to drive other out of business, then buys them out
  14. 27. In loose association of businesses
  15. 28. Owner of Carnegie steel
  16. 31. Pullman A man who was successful in producing sleeping cars
Down
  1. 1. One of the 1st labor unions, worked towards reforms of equal pay,no child labor etc.
  2. 2. A symbol of America's power and progress
  3. 4. Non-Interference by the government
  4. 5. Indians on reservation performed a sacred dance, the soldiers thought it was an uprising so they shot and killed 200 defenseless indians
  5. 6. Land was measured so you knew exactly what you owned
  6. 7. A man who tried to obtain better wages, working hours etc.
  7. 9. Make more stuff and sell if really cheap to gain control of a product
  8. 10. 260,000 railroad workers went on strike to protest the wage cuts
  9. 12. People who lost everything during the civil war and were forced to move
  10. 14. A big labor union at the time
  11. 17. Signed by Lincoln in 1862, for a small fee a person could obtain 160 acres if they met certain conditions
  12. 20. Henry Frick cut wages at Carnegie steel, then their was a strike
  13. 25. Equal distribution of wealth
  14. 29. People who stripped the world of its natural resources
  15. 30. A way of getting around monopoly laws, owning 51% of a business