Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 2. Land promised to the Cherokee and Choctaw tribes after they were removed
  2. 5. giving up land
  3. 6. Giving by the US government for railway construction
  4. 7. Location that the Transcontinental Railroad was connected
  5. 10. Purchased by Jefferson in 1803
  6. 12. The biggest obstacle for the transcontinental railroad
  7. 13. Were friendly to railroad workers because the hurt an enemy tribe
  8. 17. Policies led to Indian Removal
  9. 18. Name given to Chinese railroad workers
Down
  1. 1. The US paid Mexico $10 million for this strip of land
  2. 3. Gave up to 160 acres of land to primarily white settler of the West
  3. 4. To absorb into another culture
  4. 8. Sitting Bull's tribe
  5. 9. Where the Union Pacific Railway began
  6. 11. state that was entirely ceded from Mexico
  7. 14. Asked to be annexed by the United States
  8. 15. taking territory
  9. 16. original peoples
  10. 18. More than 1/3 were African American or Mexican