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Across 3. Financial backing of the dollar (paper currency) with gold. 6. Grassland that extended through the west central portion of the United States 8. Large farms that would plant one single cash producing crop over and over. 9. Giving up ones way of life and accepting the way of life of the majority 10. "the movement of the people", Political party that was looking for changes in economics for the people. 11. Army Colonel who lead his troops into the Black Hills and was killed by Sioux and Cheyanne 12. Ran as a Republican and won the 1896 Presidency.

Down 1. The slaughter of Indians by American soldiers that brought about the end of the Indian Wars 2. Aimed to "Americanize" the Native Americans. 3. Meeting place that was to provide a social and educational outlet for isolated farmers. 4. Offering of 160 acres of land free to any citizen who would move west. Had to live there for 5 years. 5. Sioux Indian chief who refused to sign the treaty with the US military. Was eventually killed by the Army. 7. Major cattle route from San Antonio, Texas through Oklahoma to Kansas.