Chapter 19 Flashcards by Alycia Blangin

What are subsidies

Items given to people willing to work

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Railroad group- Sacramento

Central Pacific company

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Railroad group- omaha

Union Pacific

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Cent. Pacific workers

China

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Union pacific workers

Ireland

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May 10, 1869

They completed the railroad

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Significance of final spike

Golden

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American Railway Association 1883

Divided america into 4 time zones

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Open ranges

Unfenced land

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Long drives

100’s of mi to take cows to markets

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3 cowboy challenges

Weather, stampedes, stolen cattle

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Act passed by congress in 1862 to get settlement on the great plains

Homestead act

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An acre =

A football field

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JohnnDeere invention for farmers to break through sod

Steel plow

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Used to contain livestock

Barbed wire fences

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Chief that wouldnt sell his land to americans

Chief sitting bull

What would the transcontinental railroad do

Connect the atlqntic and pacific coasts