Transcontinental Railroad Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• trees : there are not a lot of _ on the great plains
• trans : means "across"
• telegraph : how did the country find out that the railroad companies were "done?"
• land : each railroad company was paid money and given _ along the railroad tracks
• point : the railroad companies met at promontory _ , utah
• gold : the last spike was made of _
• immigrant : person who moves to another country
• blizzard : lots and lots of snow and wind that made building the railroads very difficult
• continent : transcontinental means "across the _ "
• chinese : irish and _ immigrants were important workers on the transcontinental railroad
• railroad : another word for train; began to crisscross the country in the 1860's
• plains : more and more people began to settle the great _ after the building of the transcontinental railroad
• native : as more and more people moved out west, the _ americans were constantly pushed off of their land
• mountains : large elevations of land that railroad companies had to blast through