Across
- 2. the inventor of the telegraph
- 7. a device that sent messages along wires using electricity
- 11. cowboys guiding cattle from Texas to towns along the railroads
- 12. railroad company who built the transcontinental railroad east from California
Down
- 1. African American pioneer
- 3. a farmer who had to bust through sod before planting crops
- 4. person who starts a business hoping to mae a profit
- 5. area of land set aside for Native Americans
- 6. act that gave pioneers 160 acres of free land if they met certain requirements
- 8. a new settler
- 9. railroad company that built the transcontinental railroad west from Omaha, Nebraska
- 10. service in 1860 that used riders on horses to deliver mail from Missouri to California in 10 days