Homesteaders and Railroads- TN History for Kids

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Across
  1. 3. Most of the Union Pacific's workers were _______________ immigrants.
  2. 6. Since there were no trees or stones with which to build houses, they built houses out of _____________.
  3. 8. The law said that if someone moved their family to the land and farmed it for ________ years, they could own it.
  4. 9. __________________Army Veterans many acquired land through the Homestead Act
  5. 12. The Central Pacific had to _______________ tunnels through mountains
  6. 15. In 1863, Congress approved the construction of the ________________ Railroad.
  7. 16. Congress passed in 1862 to give out land
  8. 18. Many of the Central Pacific's workers were ________________immigrants
  9. 19. Homesteaders had to dig deep ___________ to find water supplies
  10. 20. the waste burned for warmth
  11. 22. veterans were not eligibile
  12. 24. was invented in 1874 and was what Homesteaders used for fencing
Down
  1. 1. the part of the country mainly associated with the Homestead Act
  2. 2. The idea of the railroad was to reach all the way from the ______ River to near the Pacific Ocean.
  3. 4. Many homesteaders also turned out to be ______________________ who left Europe and came to the U.S. for a chance to own land.
  4. 5. Most of those families that moved to the Great Plains became ___________ farmers
  5. 7. The Transcontinental Railroad started in Omaha, _____________
  6. 10. Parts of the railroad stretching through Nebraska were easy to build because the land was _________
  7. 11. The biggest problem the Union Pacific workers faced were occasional _______________ by American Indians who didn't want the railroad built in the first place
  8. 13. _________Pacific was built east from Sacramento
  9. 14. _________Pacific was built west from Omaha
  10. 17. Most of those families that moved to the Great Plains became ____________ farmers
  11. 18. The Transcontinental Railroad ended in Sacramento, _______________
  12. 21. The Transcontinental Railroad was completed when the two railroads finally met at Promontory Summit, ____________ in May 1869.
  13. 23. The Transcontinental Railroad reduced the time to get from one end of the United States to the other, from several months to a ______________
  14. 25. the act allowed any head of household to choose and claim 160 _____ for a very small amount of money.