Westward Expansion

2. Famous businessmen who during the expansion out west founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company, created the first- mail order catalog company which later become Sears Roebuck and Company
3. used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion
4. a law passed by Congress in 1862 offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the transcontinental railroad.
6. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
10. a railroad that crosses an entire continent
11. person who claimed land on the Great Plains under The Homestead Act of 1862
13. - young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle north. Approximately ¼-⅓ all cowboys were Hispanic or African Americans

1. a house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used especially by settlers on the Great Plains where timber was scarce
5. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd, or drive, cattle from the ranches in Texas north on trails leading to the railroads.
7. what the Native Americans called the Transcontinental Railroad.
8. -Enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that made available 160 acres of free farmland
9. Former slave turned Cowboy. Famous for his skills of roping, and cattle herding
12. was a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim