westward expansion

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Across
  1. 6. made it easier to transport
  2. 7. a type of steel fencing
  3. 11. started from Omaha Nebraska
  4. 13. were killed in conflicts or by disease.
  5. 14. Nickname given to the first African American
  6. 15. a long journey taken by cowboys
Down
  1. 1. The name given to the Transcontinental Railroad by Native Americans.
  2. 2. started from Sacramento California
  3. 3. very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion.
  4. 4. young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle north.
  5. 5. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
  6. 8. who took up arms against the government were not allowed to file a claim for land.
  7. 9. was a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
  8. 10. a law passed by Congress in 1862
  9. 12. Enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that made available