This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Westward Expansion & Industrialization has 24 clues. Answers range from 4 to 28 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
Where was Custer's Last stand?
What group of immigrants from Asia came to work on the railroads?
What large Plains mammal was almost completely killed off for sport and fun?
What famous red-haired general started his military career during the Civil War?
What rule or law meant that America was going to get as big as it could, because it could?
Some of the people that moved out west.
Where did the two major railroad lines meet up in the west?
A tribe of Native Americans involved in Custer's Last Stand?
What types of precious metal was found in the west and caused boom towns to develop?
The name of one powerful influential Native American Chief
A famous African American cowboy?
The machine used to transport heavy materials, equipment and people out west?
These were created by the railroad companies to keep trains running on time.
Was one of two railroad companies active in the American West.
One of two railroad companies active in the American West.
What partly caused industry in the US to flourish?
What type of work ethic impacted industrialization?
Dakota and Cheyenne people experienced a rush of settlers trying to get at the **** in their territories.
Indian ******* Act of 1830 gave much of the land west of the Mississippi River to American Indians.
Robbery and ****** were common in boom towns where there was no government of law enforcement.
The Homestead Act gave *** ***** of federal land free to settlers who keep it farmed for 5 years.
Transcontinental Railroad was completed in ****
A commemorative ****** spike was used to complete the 2,000 miles of track for the transcontinental railroad.
***** Chinese cleared trees, shoveled dirt, blasted tunnels and laid track for ******* ******* of the Central Pacific Railroad.