Chapter 19 Flashcards
What are subsidies?
Land grants that were given to any person willing to build
What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?
Connect the pacific to the Atlantic
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
The central pacific company
What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?
The Union Pacific company
The Central Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
China
The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Ireland
What occurred on May 10, 1869?
The transcontinental railroad was completed
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
It was golden and driven in by the governor of California
What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
Split it into 4 time zones
What were open ranges?
Land not fined in or on lots
What were long drives?
The moving of cattle from one place to another
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
Stampedes, tough wether, and rustlers
What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains?
The measured act
How much land is an acre?
100 yards
What invention by John Deere allowed farmers to break through the tough
Midwestern sod?
The iron plow
What was used to keep livestock in a contained area and to mark territory?
Barbed wire
What Sioux chief didn’t want to sell the Black Hills area of the Dakotas to the US
Gov’t?
Sitting Bull
What was Chief Joseph’s famous quote about Native American attitudes at this
time?
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever
Who was the last Native American to surrender in the Apache Wars?
Geronimo
What two things did the Dawes Act do?
Broke up reservations and disbanded tribes
What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding
schools?
They were thought to act and. Dress like European kids
What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?
A discharged
What battle caused the end of armed conflict between the US and Indians?
Wounded knee
How had a last stand at little big horn
Custard
