Chapter 19 Flashcards
What are subsidies?
Financial aid,and land grants
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
The central pacific company
What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?
The union pacific
The Central Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Chinease
The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Irish
What occurred on May 10, 1869?
Workers completed construction of the transcontinential at promontory point
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
It is the spike that joined the two tracks
What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
Divided the country into 4 time zones
What were open ranges?
Land not fenced in or divided into lots
What were long drives?
Where ranchers drove tjeir cattle for long journeys or miles
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
Weather conditions, rustlers who tried to steal cattle, and fighting off stampedes
What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains?
Homestead act
How much land is an acre?
Roughly a football field
What invention by John Deere allowed farmers to break through the tough
Midwestern sod?
Steelplow
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
Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Crazy horse
What was Chief Joseph’s famous quote about Native American attitudes at this
time?
From where the sun now stands, I fight no more forever
Who was the last Native American to surrender in the Apache Wars?
Geronamio
What two things did the Dawes Act do?
Broke up reservation land individually, and removed tribal attiliantions
What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding
schools?
Dress,act,english, and had new names were the things the native American kids were taught and had to do
What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?
The U.S. Army sent soliders to collect the sioux’s weapons and one of the rifles discharged (went off,fired)
What battle caused the end of armed conflict between the US and Indians?
Wounded knee
What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?
Connect the atlantic and pacific coasts
