Chapter 19 Flashcards
What are subsidies?
A sum of money granted by the government
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
The central 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?
Chinese
The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Ireland
What occurred on May 10, 1869?
The golden spike event
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
Where it joined the tracks
What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
It divided the country into 4 time zones
What were open ranges?
Land not fenced in
What were long drives?
Whenever ranchers drove the cattle for hundreds of miles at a time
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
The weather,rustlers who tried to steal the 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?
Roughly the size of 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
What Sioux chief didn’t want to sell the Black Hills area of the Dakotas to the US
Gov’t?
Little Bighorn
Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Cheif 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?
Geronomio
What two things did the Dawes Act do?
Broke up reservation land individually and removed tribal afflictians
What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding
schools?
To dress like and act like an european,taught english,couldnt use their original names they were born with
What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Whenever the union went to gather the weapons
What battle caused the end of armed conflict between the US and Indians?
The Wounded Knee Masacre
What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?
It would connect the atlantic and pacific coasts
