Across
- 2. a law passed by congrees in 1862 offering government loans by two companies
- 4. is a journey that took cowboys from the South to the north
- 5. a person set on land in the early west prior to the opening
- 6. The place in nortwesten
- 8. wife type of fence with sharp points at intervals
- 10. Nickname given to the first African American calvery regiments
- 13. what the Native Americans called the transcontinental railroad
- 15. Enacted by Abraham Lincon in 1862 made 160 acres of free Farmland
- 16. person who claimed land on the great plains from the homestead act
Down
- 1. used on the very last railroad of the transcontinental railroad
- 3. famous cattle trail used to herd long horns
- 7. is a railroad that goes from east to west
- 9. young men from Texas paid to drive cattle to the north
- 11. former slave turned into a cowboy
- 12. Starting from Sacramento California and the Union Pacific from Omaha Nebraska
- 14. a house built of strips of sod, laid with brickwork