Ch. 16 page 442-448

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Across
  1. 2. Act allowing settlers to claim additional land to settle on if the promised to plant trees
  2. 4. part owner of the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento
  3. 5. Owner of Central Pacific railroad in charge of managing construction
  4. 7. Act granting five square miles of land on each side of railroads built to the railroad company
  5. 8. First major discovery of silver ore in the Us, in Nevada
Down
  1. 1. Western settlement that grew as a result of the discovery of natural resources
  2. 2. Act the allowed settlers to acquire land for $2.50/acre if it was "unfit for civilization"
  3. 3. Book by Mark Twain portraying life in a Nevada mining company
  4. 6. President who ended the practice of granting large tracts of land to the railroads