Chapter 19

Question 0

What are subsidies?

Answer 0

Money granted by the Government or by states on things that they want built

Question 1

What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

Answer 1

It would connect the east to the west

Question 2

What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

Answer 2

Central Pacific railroad company

Question 3

What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?

Answer 3

Union Pacific railroad

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

Signaling the completion of the transcontinental railroad

Question 7

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

Answer 7

That it was golden

Question 8

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

Answer 8

They created time zones

Question 9

What were open ranges?

Answer 9

Where cattle roamed freely

Question 10

What were long drives?

Answer 10

When you road on long distances

Question 11

What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

Answer 11

Weather and people stealing their cattle or cattle roaming away

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Homestead act of 1862

Question 13

How much land is an acre?

Answer 13

A football field

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The steal plow

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Barb wire fencing

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

Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

Answer 17

Custard

Question 18

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

Answer 18

When the sun sits i will stop fighting and hope for peace

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Geronimo

Question 20

What two things did the Dawes Act do?

Answer 20

Made it were Indians were going to be treated like white people

Question 21

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

Answer 21

To learn the English language,and American-European names,and to act like Americans

Question 22

What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Answer 22

Were a bunch of Indians were gathered up to morn and the U.S. Government were scared of an attack so they sent in troops to take all weapons but a gun went off

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Wounded knee massacre