Chapter 19 Flashcards
What are subsidies?
a parliamentary grant to the sovereign for state needs.
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
The cental Pacific company
What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?
The Union Pacific Company
The Central Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
China
The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Irish
What occurred on May 10, 1869?
Workers completed construction of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
It was gold
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?
When ranchers had to drive their cattle on a long journey
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
Tough weather conditions, rustlers who tried to steel cattle, and fighting off stampedes
What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains?
The Homestead Act
How much land is an acre?
A football field
What invention by John Deere allowed farmers to break through the tough
Midwestern sod?
The steel plow
What was used to keep livestock in a contained area and to mark territory?
Barbed wire fences
What Sioux chief didn’t want to sell the Black Hills area of the Dakotas to the US
Gov’t?
Chief Sitting Bull
Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Chief Joseph
What was Chief Joseph’s famous quote about Native American attitudes at this
time?
“From where the sun now stands, i will fight no more forever.”
Who was the last Native American to surrender in the Apache Wars?
Geronimo
What two things did the Dawes Act do?
Broke up reservations land individually, and removed tribal affilations
What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding
schools?
To dress and and act like European Americans, they were taught english and had to use it, and their names were changed to European American names
What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?
The army opened fire and killed 225 people so the wounded knee marked the end
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
