Across
- 3. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
- 5. Young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle north. Approximately ¼-⅓ all were Hispanic or African Americans (newly freed slaves-remembers it was 1865 ish)
- 6. A law passed by Congress in 1862 offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the Transcontinental Railroad.
- 8. A person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
- 10. Used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion.
- 11. The place in northwestern Utah where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869, completing the transcontinental railroad.
- 12. Former slave turned Cowboy. Famous for his skills in roping, and cattle herding.
- 13. A railroad that crosses an entire continent.
Down
- 1. Famous businessmen who during the expansion out west founded the R.W. Sears Watch Company, created the first- mail order catalog company which later become Sears Roebuck and Company.
- 2. Enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 wich made 160 acres of free farmland available to adults, men, widows, and the head of the household above the age of 21 to farm the land for 5 years.
- 4. A house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used especially by settlers on the Great Plains where timber was scarce.
- 7. The name given to the Transcontinental Railroad by Native Americans.
- 9. A person who claimed land in the Great Plains under The Homestead Act of 1862 was called a?