Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 3. large land territory bought by Thomas Jefferson for $15 million
  2. 5. native americans were forced onto these
  3. 6. americans killed millions of this animal when moving west
  4. 7. the chinese ___________ act was passed to stop chinese immigration
  5. 11. type of "destiny" that America was supposed to expand west
  6. 13. Henry __________ made steel easier
  7. 15. railway connected east and west
  8. 16. immigrant group besides the chinese that worked on the railroad
  9. 17. split native american land into plots for families
Down
  1. 1. these were created so people had appropriate times to use the train based on the sun
  2. 2. this act offered free land to people willing to move west
  3. 4. this group of people were pushed off their land as americans moved west
  4. 8. railroad company going from east to west
  5. 9. when people moved to an area to make riches quickly
  6. 10. popular trail used by wagon trains heading west
  7. 12. railroad company going from west to east
  8. 14. state that the final spike of the transcontinental railroad was driven