Chapter19 Flashcards
What are subsidie
Financial and land grants
What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?
Would connect the Atlantic and Pacific coats
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
The Center 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?
China
The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Ireland
What occurred on May 10, 1869?
Workers competed construction on the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
It joined the tracks
What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
Separated the country into 4 time zones
What were open ranges?
Land not fenced in on divided into lots
What were long drives?
States drive their cattle hundreds of miles on journeys
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
1) . Tough weather
2) . People try to steal cattle
3) . Fighting off stampedes
What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains?
Homestead act
What was used to keep livestock in a contained area and to mark territory?
Barbwire
What Sioux chief didn’t want to sell the Black Hills area of the Dakotas to the US
Gov’t?
Chief Sittin Bull
