Westward Expansion

2. A journey where cowboys took cattle west from Texas
4. The act that made it so free land in the West was given out
6. Many of these were created when the Transcontinental Railroad was being built/was done being built
9. Soldiers that were African American and were fighting on the front lines against Native American Tribes
11. Act that offered land and government loans to the companies who built the Transcontinental Railroad
14. The name Native Americans used for trains
15. A house made of sod, grass, weeds, rocks, etc.
16. The railway company that started in Omaha, Nebraska

1. The railway company that started in Sacramento, California
3. The invention that meant the end of the cowboy
5. A railway that moves across a whole continent
7. People who would go to land early in an attempt to claim it before everyone else has a chance to
8. Men mainly from Texas paid to bring cattle from Texas to the Transcontinental Railroad
10. People who claimed land through the Homestead Act
12. The place where the last spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad
13. The famous trail used by cowboys in Cattle Drives