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Chapter 18- A Nation on the Move Flashcards

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Companies that were commissioned to build the transcontinental railroad

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  1. Union Pacific

2. Central Pacific

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Americas most important transportation

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Railroads

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May 10 1869

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The first transcontinental railroad

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Promontory Point

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Where the first transcontinental railroad was completed

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Ways land grants were beneficial to federal government

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  1. Increased value of land

2. Carried personnel, freight, & mail at reduced rates

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Great northern

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Transcontinental railroad built without federal funds

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Hill

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Promoter of great northern

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1880’s

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Greatest decade of railroad growth

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Pullman

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Sleeping car

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Westinghouse

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Air breaks

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How did railroad inventions improve railroads?

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  1. Made them safer

2. Made them more convenient

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Last frontier

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Last section of the country to be settled

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Colorado

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Where gold was discovered in 1858

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Last frontier

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Last section of country to be settled

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Meatpacking

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Industry developed in Kansas City & Chicago

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Chrisholm trail

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Favorite route for cattle drivers

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“Cow towns”

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Towns where herds met railroad lines

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2 factors that encouraged western settlement

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  1. Homestead act

2. Extension of railroad

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Stable food for prairie farmers

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Corn

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Windmills

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Device that helped obtain water

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Great Plains

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“Nations breadbasket”

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Pillsbury

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Largest flour mill in the world

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1890

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Frontier line was no longer discernible

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Little big horn

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Most famous battle of Sioux war

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Custer

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U.S. Colonel that died in battle

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Joseph

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Led the Sioux

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Jackson

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Published “a century of dishonor”

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Things Dawes act offered to Indians

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  1. 160 acres of land

2. U.S. Citizenship to any head of an Indian family

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1924

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Congress granted full citizenship to all Indians

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