Westward Expansion Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. a famous businessman who during the expansion out west founded the R.W Sears Watch Company created the first mail-order catalog company which later became Sears Roebuck and Company
  2. 6. enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862. Made available 160 acres of land to adult men or widows 20 years of age who were head of their household and who agreed to farm the land for 5 years
  3. 7. a railroad that crosses an entire continent
  4. 10. Nickname given to the first African American Cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army who served in the western U.S. during 1867-1896, fighting Native American Tribes on the frontier
  5. 13. the place in northwestern Utah where the Union and Central Pacific railroads met on May 10th, 1869, completing the railroad
  6. 14. a person settling on land in the early West prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim
Down
  1. 1. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
  2. 2. a law passed by Congress in 1862 offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the railroad
  3. 3. used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad
  4. 5. houses built of strips of sod laid like brickwork and used especially by settlers on the Great Plains where timber was scarce
  5. 8. Former slave turned Cowboy. Famous for his skills in roping, and cattle herding
  6. 9. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd, or drive, cattle from the ranches in Texas north on trails leading to the railroads
  7. 10. 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
  8. 11. the name given to the Railroad by Native Americans
  9. 12. young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle North.