Brisa Gordillo-Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Law passed by Congress in 1862
  2. 7. The place in northwestern Utah where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869, completing the transcontinental railroad.
  3. 8. A person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
  4. 10. Former Slave turned Cowboy
  5. 11. A cheaply built small structure
  6. 13. Long drive leading to railroads
  7. 14. Person who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act
  8. 15. Nickname given to the first African American Cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army who served in the western U.S. during 1867-1896, fighting Native American Tribes on the frontier.
Down
  1. 1. Famous businessmen who during the expansion out west founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company, created the first- mail order catalog company which later become Sears Roebuck and Company
  2. 3. Name given to the Transcontinental Railroad by Native Americans
  3. 4. Act enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862
  4. 5. A railroad that crosses over a continent
  5. 6. Used on the completion for the last rail on the Transcontinental Railroad
  6. 9. Cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
  7. 12. Young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle north.