westward expansion-damien

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Across
  1. 5. the place in northwestern Utah where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869, completing the transcontinental railroad.
  2. 7. a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
  3. 8. 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.
Down
  1. 1. 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)
  2. 2. what the Native Americans called the Transcontinental Railroad.
  3. 3. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd, or drive, cattle from the ranches in Texas north on trails leading to the railroads.
  4. 4. used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion.
  5. 6. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas