Across
- 2. Act allowing settlers to claim additional land to settle on if the promised to plant trees
- 4. part owner of the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento
- 5. Owner of Central Pacific railroad in charge of managing construction
- 7. Act granting five square miles of land on each side of railroads built to the railroad company
- 8. First major discovery of silver ore in the Us, in Nevada
Down
- 1. Western settlement that grew as a result of the discovery of natural resources
- 2. Act the allowed settlers to acquire land for $2.50/acre if it was "unfit for civilization"
- 3. Book by Mark Twain portraying life in a Nevada mining company
- 6. President who ended the practice of granting large tracts of land to the railroads