Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 5. A very famous businessman who during the Westward Expansion founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company
  2. 10. The place where the Central Pacific started their side of the Transcontinental Railroad
  3. 12. The place where the Union Pacific started their side of the Transcontinental Railroad
  4. 14. A type of steel fencing with sharp points at various intervals
  5. 15. Former slave that turned into a cowboy. Famous for his skills of roping and cattle herding.
Down
  1. 1. Enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that made available 160 acres of free farmland to adult men or widows 21 years of age who were head of their household and who agreed to farm the land for 5 years.
  2. 2. The name given to the Transcontinental Railroad by Native Americans.
  3. 3. the place in northwestern Utah where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869, completing the transcontinental railroad.
  4. 4. 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.
  5. 6. A famous trail used by cowboys to herd longhorns
  6. 7. was a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
  7. 8. young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle north. Approximately ¼-⅓ all cowboys were Hispanic or African Americans (newly freed slaves-remembers it was 1865 ish)
  8. 9. a law passed by Congress in 1862 offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the Transcontinental Railroad. (President Lincoln)
  9. 11. used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion.
  10. 13. a house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used especially by settlers on the Great Plains where timber was scarce.