Westward Expansion

3. A Cattle _____ was the journey taken by cowboys to transport the cattle North towards the railroad.
4. The ________ trail was one of the most popular trails used by cowboys to get the cattle to the Transcontinental railroad.
6. Time _____ were created due to the creation of the railroad because there needed to be an official time for people to know exactly when their train was leaving or when they needed to be at work.
10. The Native Americans, who hadn't seen a train before, identified the Transcontinental Railroad as the Iron ______.
11. Richard Warren ______ created the first catalogs and shipped the goods on the transcontinental railroad.
12. ___ Love was a freedmen who became a cowboy and became famous for his cattle herding and roping skills.
13. A ______ Spike was used to connect the two companies railroads when they were both finished.
14. One of the countries many of the Union Pacific workers had immigrated from.
15. The Union Pacific company started their construction in ______, Nebraska.

1. ________ Wire was one main thing that ended cowboys because it blocked them off from being able to travel straight from Texas to the railroad.
2. The two rail lines met at _______ Summit, Utah on May 10th 1869.
5. A person who claimed their land under the homestead act. They may have participated in a land rush.
7. A person who cheated in land rushes by getting on the land early.
8. The ______ Pacific railroad company started construction in Sacramento California and hired mostly Chinese immigrants as worker.
9. One third of cowboys were _________ even though it doesn't seem this was in movies.