1. The murder of an important leader assassination

2. A settler’s home and land. Homestead

3. What did African American settlers call themselves? exodusters

4. A long period of time with little or no rain. drought

5. Great Plain farmers became known as this because they had to break through so much thick soil. sodbusters

6. To charge a government official with a crime Impeach

7. To charge a government official with a crime impeach

8. An unfair, negative, opinion that can lead to unjust treatment. prejudice

9. The period when the South rejoined the Union Reconstruction

10. The organization provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites Freedmen’s Bureau

11. Something that crosses a continent transcontinental

12. Poor farmers used a landowner’s field. In return the farmer gave the landowner a share of the crops. sharecropping

13. A nickname for laws that kept African Americans separate from other Americans. Jim Crow

14. The forced separation of the races. segregation