Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 3. Famous businessmen who during the expansion out west founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company
  2. 10. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd or drive cattle from the ranches in texas north on trails leading to the railroads
  3. 11. What native americans called the transcontinental Railroad
  4. 12. a railroad that crosses an entire continent
  5. 13. A person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement
  6. 14. used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion
Down
  1. 1. a type of steel fencing with sharp points at various intervals
  2. 2. The place in northwestern Utah where the union pacific and central Pacific railroads met on May 10th 1869
  3. 4. young men mainly from texas paid to herd and drive cattle north
  4. 5. A law passed by goverment loans to build the transcontinental railroad
  5. 6. Enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that made available 160 acres of free farmland
  6. 7. Former Slave turned cowboy famous for his skills of roping and cattle herding
  7. 8. A person who claimed land on the Great Plains under The Homestead Act of 1862
  8. 9. Nickname given to the first African American Cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army
  9. 10. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio Texas to Abilene Kansas
  10. 13. A house built of strips of sod