Chapter 19 Study Guide Flashcards
What are subsidies?
Finacial Aid and Land Grants
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
Central Pacific
What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?
Union Pacific
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?
The Golden Spike Event
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
It joined the 2 tracks together
What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
Divide it in 4 Different Time Zones
What were open ranges?
Land not Fenced in or Divided into Lots
What were long drives?
Travels that Ranchers would take to lead Cattle hundreds of miles to railroads
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
Tough Weather, Rustlers, and Stampeeds
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?
About the Size of a Football Feild
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?
Cheif Sitting Bull
Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Cohnel George Custer
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?
Geronimo
What two things did the Dawes Act do?
It Broke up reservation land and removed tribal afflictions
What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding
schools?
Kids were talk to dress and act like European-Americans, taught English, and had their names replaced by European Names
What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?
1 Gun Discharging
What battle caused the end of armed conflict between the US and Indians?
The Wounded Knee Massacre
What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?
Connect the Alantic and Pacific Coasts
