Chapter 19

Question 0

What are subsidies?

Answer 0

Financial aid and land grants to companies that were willing to build this line

Question 1

What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

Answer 1

Connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts

Question 2

What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

Answer 2

Center 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

Chinese immigrants

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

Completed construction of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point

Question 7

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

Answer 7

It was the spike that joined the tracks

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Divides the country into 4 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

To reach railroads in many states, ranchers had to drive their cattles hundreds of miles

Question 11

What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

Answer 11

Tough weather conditions, rustlers, and fighting off stampedes

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Homestead Act

Question 13

How much land is an acre?

Answer 13

Size of a football field

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Steel plow

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Bared 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

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

Answer 17

Crazy Horse

Question 18

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

Answer 18

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

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

Broke up reservations individually and removed tribal afflictions

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Taught English, couldn’t use their native language and traditional names were replaced with European names

Question 22

What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Answer 22

Several hundred Lakota Sioux gathered at Wounded Knee Creek to mourn Sitting Bull’s death and a gun went off

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Wounded Knee