Westward Expansion

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Across
  1. 4. Their lives were lonely, adventurous and independent.
  2. 6. The final battle and the end of the Indian Wars.
  3. 8. Encouraged Americans to move west, gave 160 acres of land to farm.
  4. 10. He created the first mail order business that still exists today.
  5. 11. He created a farming equipment business that offered support.
  6. 13. This group of people worked on the Transcontinental railroad.
  7. 14. An organization of farmers offering help to farmers.
  8. 15. A group of migrants traveling through Mexico to the U.S. boarder.
Down
  1. 1. This becomes the main industry of the west.
  2. 2. The Equality State, the first territory and state to give women the right to vote.
  3. 3. This event happened in the 1840s before railroads were built in the west.
  4. 5. A political third party representing farmers and brought about reform.
  5. 7. This invention brought a quick end to the cattle drives
  6. 9. This railroad led to mail order, time zones and cattle drives.
  7. 12. The place in Utah where the Transcontinental Railroad was finished.