Across
- 2. Young men that were required to be under 30 years old, rounding up all the cattle and longhorns
- 4. Houses were built out of strips of sod when there wasn't any more timber.
- 5. Needed approximately $12-18
- 7. Trail that Cowboys used to herd longhorns from San Antonio Texas to Abilene Kansas
- 8. Is One of the companies, hiring 90% of Chinese immigrants
- 12. Railroad It crossed the entire continent
- 13. Important Legislation that gave people on the Union side 160 acres of land
- 14. Nickname given by the Native Americans to the African American soldiers that were in the Army.
- 15. was the place where the 2 companies met on May 10th, 1869
Down
- 1. Is One of the companies, hiring Irish immigrants
- 3. A type of steel fencing with extremely sharp points to catch the Longhorns. This ended the cattle drives and the Cowboy era.
- 6. 1862 law passed on by Congress that offered the government free land and loans for the 2 companies creating the Transcontinental Railroad
- 9. When a Former Slave turned into a cowboy, when they had good roping skills and they knew how to ride a horse.
- 10. Native American's nickname for the Transcontinental Railroad
- 11. Used on the last rail of the Transcontinental Railroad for finishing