Across
- 3. Nickname given to the first African American Cavalry regiments of the U.S. Army who served in the western U.S. during 1867-1896, fighting Native American Tribes on the frontier.
- 4. a type of steel fencing with sharp points at various intervals. Invented by Joseph Gliden that resulted in closing the western frontier and ending the cattle drives and cowboy era.
- 6. Famous cattle trail used to herd longhorns from San Antonio, Texas to Abilene, Kansas
- 8. a law passed by Congress in 1862 offering government loans and free land to the two companies building the Transcontinental Railroad
- 10. The name given to the Transcontinental Railroad by Native Americans.
- 11. a house built of strips of sod, laid like brickwork, and used especially by settlers on the Great Plains where timber was scarce
- 13. a railroad that crosses an entire continent.
- 15. a long journey taken by cowboys to herd, or drive, cattle from the ranches in Texas north on trails leading to the railroads.
Down
- 1. young men mainly from Texas paid to herd and drive cattle north. Approximately ¼-⅓ all cowboys were Hispanic or African American
- 2. Enacted by Abraham Lincoln in 1862 made available 160 acres of free farmland
- 5. person who claimed land on the Great Plains under The Homestead Act of 1862 Sodbuster
- 7. 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
- 8. Summit Utah is the place in northwestern Utah where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869, completing the transcontinental railroad
- 9. was a person settling on land in the early west prior to the official opening to settlement in order to gain the claim.
- 12. Love Former slave turned Cowboy. Famous for his skills of roping, and cattle herding.
- 14. Spike used on the very last rail of the transcontinental railroad marking its completion.