Across
- 2. Brought an end to the open range and cattle drives.
- 3. Meeting point of the lines of the Transcontinental Railroad.
- 6. Primary Workforce of the Central Pacific.
- 7. This natural resource created a construction boom on the Great Plains.
- 10. The railroad gave rise to this type of catalog.
- 12. One of the two companies building the Transcontinental railroad.
- 15. Besides money the Federal government paid the companies building the Transcontinental Railroad.
- 17. One of the two companies building the Transcontinental Railroad.
- 19. Developed a process for making steel faster and cheaper.
- 20. Their way of life only lasted twenty years driving cattle.
- 21. He was President when the Transcontinental railroad was completed.
- 22. Arrival of new immigrants gave America a surplus of this for industry.
Down
- 1. What issue delayed the Construction of the transcontinental railroad.
- 4. Mapped the route of the Transcontinental railroad.
- 5. Invented Barbed wire.
- 7. Wizard of Menlo Park.
- 8. Raw material needed for lubrication.
- 9. Belief that the United States would conquer the continent from east to west.
- 11. Invented the telephone.
- 13. Raw material for making steel.
- 14. Made the first successful airplane.
- 16. First research laboratory in America.
- 18. First to use the Assembly line on a mass scale.
- 23. How many time zones did the railroad establish in America?
