Across
- 3. *a system for the marketing, transporting, and selling of any good or service
- 5. Encourage immigration from ----- and Asia
- 9. Year transcontinental line completed in
- 12. The great Northern railroad company built the nation's ----- transcontinental railroad
- 14. Appointed commander of the Union army during the Civil War by Abraham Lincoln
- 15. Year Washington became a part of the transcontinental system
- 16. 50 percent of annual timber production in the United States
- 17. Downside to loan practices and land grant system
Down
- 1. *a grant or contribution of money; or in the case of the railroads, land from the government
- 2. Hill agreed to sell ----- acres of his land for $5.4 million
- 4. *having enough money to pay debts
- 6. Railroad construction
- 7. Credited for Seattle and the northwest economic growth
- 8. Helped fund construction costs through loans and grants
- 10. Farmers and ranchers used the railroads to transport their crops and livestock to markets in the Midwest and -----
- 11. -----
- 13. Responsible for completion of the Northern Pacific