Across
- 3. Continued to support large mining companies by providing inexpensive land and approving patents for new inventions
- 5. 1862 law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five years
- 7. A rail link between the East and the West
- 8. A symbolic golden spike that was driven in to mark the completion of the transcontinental railroad
Down
- 1. Vast area of grassland on which livestock roamed and grazed
- 2. Self-appointed law enforcer
- 4. Land designated by the federal government for building schools, roads, or railroads
- 6. African Americans who migrated from the South to the West after the Civil War