Westward Expanshion

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Across
  1. 3. The name the Natives gave the train
  2. 6. A company that started in Omaha Nebraska
  3. 7. A company that started Sacramento Californa
  4. 11. The place where the 2 companies met
  5. 12. people payed to herd cattle
  6. 13. / 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.
Down
  1. 1. A trail cowboys used to herd cattle
  2. 2. / Enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that made available 160 acres of free farmland to adult men or widows 21 years of age who were head of their household and who agreed to farm the land for 5 years.
  3. 4. / The railroad that crossed the country
  4. 5. a person who cheated to get land
  5. 8. A law that congress passed in 1862 that offered free land to the company that are built the railroad
  6. 9. A house built of strips of sod
  7. 10. Used to connect the rail road