Across
- 2. More than 1/3 were African American or Mexican
- 6. Where the Union Pacific Railway began
- 7. giving up land
- 10. Location that the Transcontinental Railroad was connected
- 13. taking territory
- 14. The biggest obstacle for the transcontinental railroad
- 16. Sitting Bull's tribe
- 17. original peoples
- 19. Giving by the US government for railway construction
Down
- 1. Policies led to Indian Removal
- 3. Land promised to the Cherokee and Choctaw tribes after they were removed
- 4. Were friendly to railroad workers because the hurt an enemy tribe
- 5. The US paid Mexico $10 million for this strip of land
- 8. Gave up to 160 acres of land to primarily white settler of the West
- 9. Purchased by Jefferson in 1803
- 11. Asked to be annexed by the United States
- 12. Name given to Chinese railroad workers
- 15. To absorb into another culture
- 18. state that was entirely ceded from Mexico