CH19 Flashcards
What are subsidies?
Finacial aid and land grants to companies
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
The cenral pacific
What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?
The union pacific
The Central Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Chinease
The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Irish
What occurred on May 10, 1869?
Workers completed construction of transcontinental railroad
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
Joined the tracks
What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
Split country into four time zones
What were open ranges?
Land not fenced in
What were long drives?
Long journeys that were hundreds of miles
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?
Abt the size of a footbal 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?
George custer
What was Chief Joseph’s famous quote about Native American attitudes at this
time?
From where the sun now stands, i will fight no more forever
Who was the last Native American to surrender in the Apache Wars?
Geronimo
What two things did the Dawes Act do?
Broke up reservation land individually and removed tribal afflications
What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding
schools?
Dress and act like european americans, taught english and couldnt use native tounge, traditional names were replaced w american ones
What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?
One gun discharged
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 coasts
