Topic 10: Challenges in the Late 1800s

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Across
  1. 6. farmers' organization formed after the Civil War
  2. 10. specific areas set aside by the government for Indian use
  3. 11. a political party's organization that wins voter loyalty & guarantees power to a small groups of leaders
  4. 12. network of farmers' organizations that worked for political & economic reforms in the late 1800s
  5. 14. a rail link between the East & West
  6. 15. politicians awarded government jobs to loyal party workers with little regard for their qualifications
  7. 16. African Americans who fled the south post Civil War for "promised land" in Kansas & Oklahoma
  8. 17. self-appointed law enforcers
Down
  1. 1. government used gold as the basis of the nation's currency
  2. 2. passed by Congress in 1887; encouraged Indians to become private property owners & farmers
  3. 3. method of ranching in which the rancher allows his or her livestock to roam & graze over a vast area of grassland
  4. 4. land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads
  5. 5. a system that includes federal jobs in the executive branch
  6. 7. adopting the culture & civilization of whites
  7. 8. People's Party; political party formed in 1891 to advocate a larger money supply & other economic reforms
  8. 9. currency not backed by gold or silver
  9. 13. took place in present-day Montana; Sioux victory against Colonel Custer & his men