Chapter 19 Flashcards
1
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What are subsidies
A
Items given to people willing to work
2
Q
Railroad group- Sacramento
A
Central Pacific company
3
Q
Railroad group- omaha
A
Union Pacific
4
Q
Cent. Pacific workers
A
China
5
Q
Union pacific workers
A
Ireland
6
Q
May 10, 1869
A
They completed the railroad
7
Q
Significance of final spike
A
Golden
8
Q
American Railway Association 1883
A
Divided america into 4 time zones
9
Q
Open ranges
A
Unfenced land
10
Q
Long drives
A
100’s of mi to take cows to markets
11
Q
3 cowboy challenges
A
Weather, stampedes, stolen cattle
12
Q
Act passed by congress in 1862 to get settlement on the great plains
A
Homestead act
13
Q
An acre =
A
A football field
14
Q
JohnnDeere invention for farmers to break through sod
A
Steel plow
15
Q
Used to contain livestock
A
Barbed wire fences
