Amsco 16 Crossword
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
                          
 
 
Down: 1) Inventor of Barbed Wire in 1873 which tamed the west.2) Former slave African-American who thought social equality could be achieved by economic equality first. He founded the Tuskegee Institute for vocational training.3) Sioux leader who led defeat of Custer at Little Big Horn in 1876 but was killed in 1890.5) Entrepreneur famous for his Texas longhorn cattle drives. 7) Laws of legal segregation particularly in the south. Upheld by Plessy vs. Ferguson separate but equal Supreme Court decision in 1896.8) Farmer groups attempting to help farmers with problems of the era with railroads and other distractions. Across: 4) Either of two group dances associated with a messianic religious movement among Native American peoples of the Southwest and Great Plains in the late 19th century. These prophets foretold the imminent disappearance of whites, the restoration of traditional lands and ways of life, and the resurrection of dead ancestors6) Harvard educated and PhD holding African-American leader who wanted immediate equality. He helped organize the Niagara Movement and co-founded the NAACP.9) Wrote a frontier thesis claiming that the west was the definition of true American character and not the Atlantic Coast.10) African-American who invented and created many things including peanut butter.
 

 

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