Westward expansion

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Across
  1. 2. young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle down
  2. 3. Railway Act- a law passed by Congress in 1862 offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the Transcontinental Railroad. (President Lincoln)
  3. 5. a person who claimed land on the Great Plains under The Homestead Act of 1862 Sodbuster- settler on the Great Plains in the late 1800s who had to “bust” through thick sod to plant crops.
  4. 7. Soldiers- Nickname given to the first African American Cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army who served in the western U.S. during 1867-1896, fighting Native American Tribes on the frontier.
  5. 9. was a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
  6. 11. Railroad- a railroad that crosses an entire continent.
Down
  1. 1. houses were built of strips of sod laid like brickwork, and used especially by settlers on the Great Plains where timber was scarce.Sooner- was a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
  2. 4. Spike- used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion.
  3. 6. Warren Sears- 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
  4. 7. wire- a type of steel fencing with sharp points at various intervals. Invented by Joseph Gliden that resulted in closing the western frontier and ending the cattle drives and cowboy era.
  5. 8. Trail famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio Texas to Abilene Kansas
  6. 10. drive a long journey taken by cowboys to herd, or drive cattle from the ranches in Texas north on trails leading to the railroads
  7. 11. Central Pacific starting from Sacramento California and The Union Pacific from Omaha Nebraska ……….were assigned the task of building the transcontinental railroad that would link the United States from east to west.
  8. 12. love former slave turned cowboy famous for his skills of roping and cattle hunting
  9. 13. horse the name given to the transcontinental railroad by Native Americans