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Chapter 19 Flashcards

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What are subsidies?

A

Financial aid and land grants

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What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

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The Central Pacific Company

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What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?

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The Union Pacific Company

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

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China

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

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Ireland

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What occurred on May 10, 1869?

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Workers completed the construction of the TCR

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

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It joined the tracks

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

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Divided it into 4 time zones

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What were open ranges?

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Land not fenced or divided into lots

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What were long drives?

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The driving of cattle hundreds of miles

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What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

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  1. Tough weather conditions
  2. Rustlers who tried to steal cattle
  3. Fighting off stampedes
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What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains?

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Homestead Act

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How much land is an acre?

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About the size of a football field

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

A

Steel plow

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

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Barbed wire

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What Sioux chief didn’t want to sell the Black Hills area of the Dakotas to the US Gov’t?

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Chief Sitting Bull

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

A

Chief Joseph

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

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

19
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Who was the last Native American to surrender in the Apache Wars?

A

Geronimo

20
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What two things did the Dawes Act do?

A
  1. Broke up reservation land individually

2. Removed tribal affiliations

21
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What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding
schools?

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  1. Taught how to dress and act like European Americans
  2. Taught English and couldnt use their native langauges
  3. Traditional names were replaced by European names
22
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What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

A

US Army sending troops to collect Sioux weapons

23
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What battle caused the end of armed conflict between the US and Indians?

A

Wounded Knee

24
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What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

A

Connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts

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