Westward Expantion

6. Famous businessmen who during the expansion out west founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company, created the first- mail order catalog company which later become Sears Roebuck and Company
9. was a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
10. The name given to the Transcontinental Railroad by Native Americans.
12. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
13. a house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used especially by settlers on the Great Plains where timber was scarce.
14. young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle north. Approximately ¼-⅓ all cowboys were Hispanic or African Americans
15. a law passed by Congress in 1862 offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the Transcontinental Railroad.

1. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd, or drive, cattle from the ranches in Texas north on trails leading to the railroads.
2. a railroad that crosses an entire continent.
3. person who claimed land on the Great Plains under The Homestead Act of 1862 Sodbuster- settler on the Great Plains in the late 1800s who had to “bust” through thick sod to plant crops.
4. the place in northwestern Utah where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869, completing the transcontinental railroad.
5. 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.
7. 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.
8. used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion.
11. Former slave turned Cowboy. Famous for his skills of roping, and cattle herding.