Westward Expansion Crossword Puzzle

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QUESTIONS LIST: populist party : called for the government to own railroads and telephone and telegraph systems, cattle drive : long journeys where cowboys herded cattle to the market, pony express : a system of messengers on horseback who carried mail to the west, frontier : an underdeveloped area, trans continental : a railroad that crossed the continent and connected the east to the west, reservations : areas of federal land set aside for native americans, deflation : a decrease in the money supply and overall lower prices, morrill act : granted federal land to the states to be sold to raise money to build colleges, boom towns : communities that grew suddenly when a mine opened, buffalo soldiers : u.s. troops sent to the west to force the indians to leave, comstocklode : a huge deposit of gold and silver that was found in nevada in 1859