Transcontinental Railroad Crossword Puzzle

3. a law passed by Congress in 1862 offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the transcontinental railroad.
4. a house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used especially by settlers on the Great Plains where timber was scarce.
5. ____ Zones were created due to the Transcontinental Railroad
6. The Transcontinental Railroad encouraged Amreican ______.
8. These animals were killed due to Westward expansion and the Transcontinental Railroad
9. a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
13. Railroad company that started in Sacremento, California
15. Former slave turned Cowboy. Famous for his skills of roping, and cattle herding.
16. Railroad that connected the East and the West
17. young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle north. Approximately ¼-⅓ all cowboys were Hispanic or African Americans (newly freed slaves-remembers it was 1865 ish)
18. What the Native Americans called the Transcontinental Railroad
19. The spot where the two railroad companies met and finished the railroad

1. a type of steel fencing with sharp points at various intervals. Invented by Joseph Gliden that resulted in closing the western frontier and ending the cattle drives and cowboy era.
2. ______ _________ land and food was taken and they were killed
7. person who claimed land on the Great Plains under The Homestead Act of 1862 Sodbuster- settler on the Great Plains in the late 1800s who had to “bust” through thick sod to plant crops.
10. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
11. Railroad company that started in Omaha Nebraska
12. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd, or drive, cattle from the ranches in Texas north on trails leading to the railroads.
14. How many railroad companies worked on the Transcontinental Railroad