Ch 5 Lesson 1 - Miranda V Balderas-Rojas

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Across
  1. 7. Year Washington became a part of the transcontinental system
  2. 10. Railroad construction consumed between ----- and 50 percent of annual timber production in the United States
  3. 11. Helped fund construction costs through loans and grants
  4. 12. Year transcontinental line completed in
  5. 13. *a system for the marketing, transporting, and selling of any good or service
  6. 15. Hill agreed to sell ----- acres of his land for $5.4 million
Down
  1. 1. *a grant or contribution of money; or in the case of the railroads, land from the government
  2. 2. Encourage immigration from ----- and Asia
  3. 3. Downside to loan practices and land grant system
  4. 4. Credited for Seattle and the northwest economic growth
  5. 5. Responsible for completion of the Northern Pacific
  6. 6. The great Northern railroad company built the nation's ----- transcontinental railroad
  7. 8. Farmers and ranchers used the railroads to transport their crops and livestock to markets in the Midwest and -----
  8. 9. Appointed commander of the Union army during the Civil War by Abraham Lincoln
  9. 14. *having enough money to pay debts