Ch 17.1-2 (Mining & Railroads in the West and Ranchers & Farmers)
Across
- 2. How many time zones the US is divided into
- 5. What cowboys called the path to get their cattle to railroads (two words)
- 7. The country that introduced cattle to America
- 8. When cattle get frightened and run
- 9. A town that pops up almost overnight near mining sites.
- 12. This Act gave settlers 160 acres of land if the settler lived on the land for five years
- 16. The 'Summit' where the Transcontinental Railroad met
- 17. When citizens take the law into their own hands.
- 19. A Mexican cowboy
- 20. Abilene was known as a "_____ Town"
- 21. This type of farming was when farmers tried to trap the mositure in their fields
- 24. Someone that tried to steal cattle
- 25. A railway that connects the Pacific and the Atlantic Ocean
Down
- 1. Financial aid and land grants
- 3. These bugs sometimes came in 'clouds' and could quicly destroy a field of crops
- 4. The Central Pacific relied on THESE immigrants to build their railway
- 6. The city the Union Pacific started from on their railway
- 10. The last open land in the US setteld during a 'Land Rush'
- 11. Famrers in the Great Plains relied on THIS invention (two words)
- 13. One of the world's richest deposits of silver-bearing ore (2 words)
- 14. Houses made of sod
- 15. The Great Plains was oringally known as "The Great American _____"
- 18. The city the Central Pacific started from on their railway
- 22. The union Pacific relied on THESE immigrants to build their railway
- 23. A mineral in which the gold or other valuable material is mixed with less-valuable substances
- 26. What railroads sold to settlers to raise money to pay for construction