Chapter 19 Flashcards
What are subsidies?
Financial aid and land grants
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
Central Pacific
What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?
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?
Ireland
What occurred on May 10, 1869?
Golden Spike Event
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
It was a golden spike
What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
Divided our country into 4 time zones
What were open ranges?
Land not fenced in or divided into lots
What were long drives?
A trip of several hundred miles to get to a desintation
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
Tough weather conditions, rustlers who tried to steal cattle, and fighting off stampdees
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?
1 football field
What invention by John Deere allowed farmers to break through the tough
Midwestern sod?
Steel plow
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?
Gold
Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Colonel george custer
What was Chief Joseph’s famous quote about Native American attitudes at this
time?
From where the sun nkw stand, 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 resveration and individually, removed tribal afflications
What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding
schools?
Dress and act like european americans, taught the english language , and traditional names were replaced with european names
What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Us army went to get sioux weapons at wounded knee creek while they were mourning the death of sitting bull.
What battle caused the end of armed conflict between the US and Indians?
Wounded knee
What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?
Would connect the altanic and pacific coast
