Chapter 19

Question 0

What are subsidies?

Answer 0

Land grants that were given to any person willing to build

Question 1

What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

Answer 1

Connect the pacific to the Atlantic

Question 2

What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

Answer 2

The central pacific company

Question 3

What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?

Answer 3

The Union Pacific company

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

The transcontinental railroad was completed

Question 7

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

Answer 7

It was golden and driven in by the governor of California

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Split it into 4 time zones

Question 9

What were open ranges?

Answer 9

Land not fined in or on lots

Question 10

What were long drives?

Answer 10

The moving of cattle from one place to another

Question 11

What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

Answer 11

Stampedes, tough wether, and rustlers

Question 12

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

Answer 12

The measured act

Question 13

How much land is an acre?

Answer 13

100 yards

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The iron 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

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 reservations and disbanded tribes

Question 20

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

Answer 20

They were thought to act and. Dress like European kids

Question 21

What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Answer 21

A discharged

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Wounded knee

Question 23

How had a last stand at little big horn

Answer 23

Custard