Westward Expansion Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. started from Omaha Nebraska.
  2. 3. A house built of strips of sod and laid like brickwood.
  3. 8. Enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that gave people the opportunity to get 160 acres of free land.
  4. 11. A law passed by Congress in 1862 that offered government loans and free land to the two comapanies that worked on the Transcontinental railroad.
  5. 12. The spike that was used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad.
  6. 13. A person who claimed free land under the Homestead Act of 1862.
  7. 14. the name that the native americans gave to the transcontinental railroad.
  8. 15. Famous cowboy who used to be enslaved.
Down
  1. 2. Famous cattle trail used by lots of cowboys.
  2. 4. Famous business man who made the R.W. Sears Watch Company.
  3. 5. A type of fencing used by farmers to get cowboys off of their trail.
  4. 6. young men from texas paid to herd and drive cattle north.
  5. 7. started from Sacramento California.
  6. 9. a railroad that crosses an entire continent.
  7. 10. A person settling on land in the early west to gain their claim of land.