Across
- 3. A place where livestock are penned before they are slaughtered or shipped elsewhere.
- 8. A legal agreement in which a person borrows money to buy property and pays back the money owed over a period of years.
- 9. A farmer who works land owned by another and pays rent either in cash or in shares of the crop.
- 10. The belief that it is wrong to use violence to settle conflicts.
- 15. A farming approach that uses careful plowing to keep loose soil on top, slowing evaporation to keep soil moist.
- 16. Laws discriminating against African Americans.
- 18. A combination of companies formed by an agreement to reduce competition.
- 19. Barbed-wire fence dozens of miles long used in the Texas Panhandle to mark the northern and southern limits of a rancher's land to prevent livestock from drifting off the land and wild cattle from drifting onto it and competing for food.
- 20. A ranch hand who takes care of saddle horses.
Down
- 1. An African American soldier serving in the western United States after the Civil War.
- 2. A business or organization owned and operated by the people who work in it or who use its services.
- 4. The Spanish word for "rancher".
- 5. Public land that could be used by anyone, usually for grazing cattle.
- 6. A reform movement that tried to correct social and political problems.
- 7. Separated based on membership in a racial or ethnic group.
- 11. A farmer who, in exchange for labor is provided with seed, tools, living quarters, and food and receives a share of the value of the crop.
- 12. A group of investors who join together to fund a business.
- 13. A person who moves livestock overland to market.
- 14. Extending or going across the continent.
- 17. The right to vote.
