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What are subsidies?

A

Finacial aid and land grants to companies

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What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

A

The cenral pacific

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What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?

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The union pacific

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4
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The Central Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?

A

Chinease

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The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?

A

Irish

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What occurred on May 10, 1869?

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Workers completed construction of transcontinental railroad

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What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?

A

Joined the tracks

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What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?

A

Split country into four time zones

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What were open ranges?

A

Land not fenced in

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What were long drives?

A

Long journeys that were hundreds of miles

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What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

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Weather rustlers and stampedes

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12
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What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains?

A

Homestead act

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13
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How much land is an acre?

A

Abt the size of a footbal field

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What invention by John Deere allowed farmers to break through the tough
Midwestern sod?

A

Steel plow

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What was used to keep livestock in a contained area and to mark territory?

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barbed wire

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What Sioux chief didn’t want to sell the Black Hills area of the Dakotas to the US
Gov’t?

A

Sitting bull

17
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Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

A

George custer

18
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What was Chief Joseph’s famous quote about Native American attitudes at this
time?

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From where the sun now stands, i will fight no more forever

19
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Who was the last Native American to surrender in the Apache Wars?

A

Geronimo

20
Q

What two things did the Dawes Act do?

A

Broke up reservation land individually and removed tribal afflications

21
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What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding
schools?

A

Dress and act like european americans, taught english and couldnt use native tounge, traditional names were replaced w american ones

22
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What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

A

One gun discharged

23
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What battle caused the end of armed conflict between the US and Indians?

A

Wounded knee

24
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What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

A

Connected atlantic and pacific coasts

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