Across
- 2. Law passed by Congress in 1862
- 7. The place in northwestern Utah where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869, completing the transcontinental railroad.
- 8. A person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
- 10. Former Slave turned Cowboy
- 11. A cheaply built small structure
- 13. Long drive leading to railroads
- 14. Person who claimed land on the Great Plains under the Homestead Act
- 15. 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.
Down
- 1. 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
- 3. Name given to the Transcontinental Railroad by Native Americans
- 4. Act enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862
- 5. A railroad that crosses over a continent
- 6. Used on the completion for the last rail on the Transcontinental Railroad
- 9. Cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
- 12. Young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle north.