Chapter 19

Question 1

What are subsidies?

Answer 1

Financial aid,and land grants

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

Question 4

The Central Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?

Answer 4

Chinease

Question 5

The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?

Answer 5

Irish

Question 6

What occurred on May 10, 1869?

Answer 6

Workers completed construction of the transcontinential at promontory point

Question 7

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

Answer 7

It is the spike that joined the two tracks

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Divided 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

Where ranchers drove tjeir cattle for long journeys or miles

Question 11

What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

Answer 11

Weather conditions, rustlers who tried to steal cattle, 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

Roughly a football field

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Steelplow

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

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 fight no more forever

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Geronamio

Question 20

What two things did the Dawes Act do?

Answer 20

Broke up reservation land individually, and removed tribal attiliantions

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Dress,act,english, and had new names were the things the native American kids were taught and had to do

Question 22

What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Answer 22

The U.S. Army sent soliders to collect the sioux’s weapons and one of the rifles discharged (went off,fired)

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Wounded knee

Question 24

What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

Answer 24

Connect the atlantic and pacific coasts