Across
- 6. railroad that connected the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads at Promontory Point UT in May 1869
- 8. an institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.
- 11. self-government or the right of self-government
- 13. a form of tenant farming in which the land owner provides a tenant not only with land but also with the money needed to purchase equipment and supplies and possibly also food, clothing, and supervision
- 14. the process by which an Indian was assimilated into the American way of life by changing his clothing to western clothing and renouncing his tribal customs in exchange for a parcel of land
- 16. a special act of Congress in 1862 that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.
- 17. a federal agency established in 1865, to help and protect the 4 million newly freed African Americans as they transitioned out of enslavement
- 18. ratified in 1868 granting citizenship to all formerly enslaved people by declaring that anyone born in the United States is a citizen
- 20. a 19th-century theory that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better.
Down
- 1. where one company takes over another that operates at the same level in an industry.(ex. Disney acquiring Pixar)
- 2. Civil War strategy devised by President Abraham Lincoln and General Winfield Scott by which Union forces would establish a naval blockade of southern ports and take control of the Mississippi River in order to squeeze in on the South from the east and west and defeat it
- 3. any of the laws legalizing racial segregation of Black people and White people that were enacted in Southern states beginning in the 1880s and enforced through the 1950s
- 4. ratified in 1865 abolishing slavery in the United States
- 5. company owns or controls its suppliers, distributors, or retail locations to control its value or supply chain. (Netflix going from DVD rentals to movie creation)
- 7. ratified in 1870 granting Black men the right to vote
- 9. laws enacted in 1865 and 1866 in the former Confederate states to restrict freedom and opportunities for African Americans
- 10. a small town that grows quickly as a result of a sudden increase in local economic activity
- 12. first inexpensive industrial process for turning pig iron into steel
- 15. established tracts of land for Native Americans to live on as white settlers took over their land
- 19. the period following Reconstruction in which America witnessed the resurgence and bloody normalization of White Power politics