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What are subsidies?

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Finical aid and land grants

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What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

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Would connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts

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What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

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The Central Pacific

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What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?

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The Union Pacific

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

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China

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

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Ireland

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What occurred on May 10, 1869?

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Workers completed construction of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point

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

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It was golden

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

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Divided the country into 4 time zones

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What were open ranges?

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Land not fenced in or divided into lots

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What were long drives?

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To reach railroads in many states , ranches had to drive their cattle hundreds of miles on journeys called long drives

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What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

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Tough weather rustlers and fighting stampedes

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

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Homestead Act

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How much land is an acre?

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Roughly the size of a football field

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

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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 fencing

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

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Chief sitting bull

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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 willof this time fight no more”

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

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Geronimo

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What two things did the Dawes Act do?

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Broke up reservation land individually and removed tribal affiliations

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

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To dress and act like Europeans they were taught English and and to change their names

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What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

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A gun disarmed

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

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Wounded knee

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