Chapter 19

Question 1

What are subsidies?

Answer 1

Financial aid and land grants , to companies that were willing to build this line

Question 2

What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

Answer 2

The Central Pacific Company with chinese immigrants

Question 3

What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?

Answer 3

The Union Pacific Company with many Irish immigrants

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Chinese immigrants

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Irish immigrants

Question 6

What occurred on May 10, 1869?

Answer 6

Workers completed constrution of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point

Question 7

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

Answer 7

It was made of Gold

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Divided the country into 4 time zones in 1883

Question 9

What were open ranges?

Answer 9

Land not fenced in or divided into lots.

Question 10

What were long drives?

Answer 10

When ranchers had to drive their cattle hundreds of miles

Question 11

What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

Answer 11

Tough weather conditions, rustlers who tried to steal cattle, and stampedes

Question 12

What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains?

Answer 12

The Homestead Act

Question 13

How much land is an acre?

Answer 13

Roughly the size of a football field

Question 14

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

Answer 14

The steel plow

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

Chief Sitting Bull

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Colonel George Custer

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 will fight no more forever

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Geronimo

Question 20

What two things did the Dawes Act do?

Answer 20

Broke up reservation land individually and removed tribal affiliations

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Dress and act like european americans, taught english and cant use native languages , and traditional names were replaced by european names

Question 22

What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Answer 22

They were mourning sitting bulls death then one gun dishcharged and the army opened fire and more than 200 sioux and 25 solduers were killed

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

Would connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts