Ch.19 Flashcards
What are subsidies?
Financial aid and land grants
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
Central pacific company
What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?
Union Pacific compan
The Central Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Chinese
The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Irish
What occurred on May 10, 1869?
The transcontinental railroad was completed
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
It was gold
What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
Divided the country into four time zones
What were open ranges?
Land that wasn’t closed in or owned
What were long drives?
Cowboys would drive cattle to the north
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
Weather rustlers and stampedes
What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains?
Homestead act
How much land is an acre?
A football field
What invention by John Deere allowed farmers to break through the tough
Midwestern sod?
Steel plow
What was used to keep livestock in a contained area and to mark territory?
Barbed wire
What Sioux chief didn’t want to sell the Black Hills area of the Dakotas to the US
Gov’t?
Sitting bull
Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse
What was Chief Joseph’s famous quote about Native American attitudes at this
time?
From where the sun now stands I will no longer fight forever
Who was the last Native American to surrender in the Apache Wars?
Geranimo
What two things did the Dawes Act do?
Represented land individually and broke tribal relations
What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding
schools?
Names were replaced they were taught English and were taught to dress and act like Americans
What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?
A gun misfired
What battle caused the end of armed conflict between the US and Indians?
Wounded Knee
What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?
Connected Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
