Chapter 19

Question 0

What are subsidies?

Answer 0

Financial and land grants offered to companies that were willing to build

Question 1

What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

Answer 1

Connect the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Question 2

What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

Answer 2

The Central Pacific Line

Question 3

What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?

Answer 3

The Union Pacific Line

Question 4

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

Answer 4

China

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Ireland

Question 6

What occurred on May 10, 1869?

Answer 6

Workers completed the Transcontinental Railroad with a golden spike driven by the governor of California

Question 7

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

Answer 7

It was made of gold

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Divided into four time zones

Question 9

What were open ranges?

Answer 9

Land not fenced in or divided into lots

Question 10

What were long drives?

Answer 10

A cattle drive over hundreds of miles to get cattle to the railroad junction in Kansas City, Missouri.

Question 11

What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

Answer 11

Tough Weather
Rustlers who tried to steal cattle
Stampedes

Question 12

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

Answer 12

The Homestead Act (1862)

Question 13

How much land is an acre?

Answer 13

About the size of a football field.

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The Steel Plow

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Barbed Wire

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Chief Sitting Bull

Question 17

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

Answer 17

“From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Geronimo

Question 19

What two things did the Dawes Act do?

Answer 19

Broke up reservation land individually and removed tribal affiliations.

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Dress and act like European Americans
Taught English and couldn’t use their native languages.
Given European names

Question 21

What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Answer 21

The accidental discharge of a weapon

Question 22

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

Answer 22

The Wounded Knee Massacre

Question 23

Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn

Answer 23

George Custer