Westward Expansion Review

3. The westernmost standard time zone in the continental United States, which runs exactly 3 hours behind Eastern Time. (7 letters)
6. The 1862 law that encouraged settlement by giving 160 acres of free public land to citizens who farmed it for five years. (9 letters)
7. The 1800s belief that the United States was divinely meant to expand and stretch across the entire continent from the East Coast to the West Coast. (15 letters)
10. The 1876 battle that resulted in a major, but short-lived, Native American military victory over Custer's U.S. Army troops. (13 letters)

1. Financial aid or land grants given directly to railroad companies by the federal government to encourage track construction. (9 letters)
2. The worker group that laid railroad tracks moving from West to East but was famously left out of the official celebration photo. (7 letters)
3. A person who explores an unknown area looking for valuable mineral deposits like gold or silver. (10 letters)
4. A mining community that grew incredibly fast, almost overnight, near a gold or silver discovery. (8 letters)
5. The animal population decimated by railroad hunters, destroying the primary food and shelter resource for Plains tribes. (7 letters)
8. The 1887 law passed by Congress that broke up reservation lands into individual plots to forcibly assimilate Native Americans. (5 letters)
9. The building material (prairie grass roots and dirt) used by homesteaders on the Great Plains because trees were scarce. (3 letters)