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Gold Rush & Pre-Guilded Age Flashcards

History test 3/15/24

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Dec, 6, 1865

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Slavery Dies in America

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2
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What was California the first to do?

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They where the first to have fair divorce laws
- the woman gets 50% of the man’s earning.

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3
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What the did the British build in 1869

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The Suez Canal in Egypt

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4
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What did the Morrill Act make?
How did this help new comers to the West?

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The Department of Agriculture
- Junk Drawer of America

Help newcomers buy making State collages to teach Northerners how to work the land

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5
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What were some reasons the railroad didn’t want to build the railroad?

Where did they get funds from?

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  • mountains were a problem
  • The British
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6
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Why did the Railroad need to build tunnels through mountains?

Who dug the tunnels and how?

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  • trains cant go over 1/2 degree incline
  • the chines had to blow through mountains with dynamite
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Leeland Stanford
- What did he do for in California during the Gold Rush?
- What does he do with all this money?

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  • He sells picks and shovels to miners coming to California
  • Jacks up the prices
  • He makes Central Pacific and Central California Pacific
  • he also makes Stanford Collage
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8
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What where some methods of getting Gold during the Gold rush?

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  • Panning
  • Sifter Boxing: fast way
  • TNT
  • big companies would water blast mountainside
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Why did the water level rise in San Fransisco bay during the Gold rush near the Gold mining Site?

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  • As mountains were being blasted away the silts flowed down the San Fransisco Bay and flooded cities
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What was Chicagos nick name and why?

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  • The city of Death
  • People drank the nasty water and got sick
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11
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How did Rail Road companies feed their workers?

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  • Buffalo meat
  • millions of buffalo
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-How did the Indians in the Great Plains Survive?
- How were they different in the way the way they survived then the Westerners
- how did the Indians think of the westerner’s way of surviving?

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  • they followed where the buffalo went
  • when they killed the buffalo they used all of it, while the westerns left the buffalo to rot.
  • they hated it: saw buffalo as there brother
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What where some prize parts of the buffalo?

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  • Tongue
  • Hides
    • Used to make machine belts
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14
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Who brought horses to AMERICA?

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  • Spain
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Who is Buffalo Bill?

What did He do?

Why was he so good at what he did?

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  • He was a famous buffalo marksmen
    -He would kill buffalo to feed the rail road workers
  • He would shoot the buffalo in the head and lungs to not scare off the rest of the buffalo
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What the main work force of rail roads?

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Irish and Chinese

16
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What were Spurs on a railroad?

What would develop on these spurs?

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  • little branches of the railroad that would branch off from the main road road

-towns would develop on these spurs

16
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What is “Hell on Wheels”

What other way would rail roads use to entertain there workers?

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  • gambling cars that railroad workers would use for entertainment
  • Saloon cars
17
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What’s the significance of the Gold Spike?
(2 reasons)

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  • it was the last spike to be driven in the railroad
    -it connected to the wires to send the first message “Its Finished”
18
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  • What are railroad ties?
  • what percentage of lumber went into the railroad?
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  • Peaces of wood that go under the track
  • 20%
19
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What where Republicans becoming in the time?

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  • a party for the rich to squeeze out the poor
20
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Ratio of buffalo that where left to rot?

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1 out of every 5

21
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What was the Donner Party’s initial intent?
What happened?

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  • they originally wanted to get across the continental divide
  • but winter came fast and they had to eat each other
22
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1871 what happened to Chicago?

What happens after this year?

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  • Chicago burns to the ground
  • There’s a clean slate, now talent from across the world can help rebuild Chicago
23
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What was Henry Ford inspired by when he saw the stock yards?

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  • He made the assembly line for what he saw in Chicago
24
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How big were the stock yards?
What surrounded the stock yards?

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  • 1 mile square with thousands of animals in it
  • factories surround them (Slaughter houses)
25
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What industry was Chicago known for?

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  • Stock yards
26
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What did the Dutch do in Chicago?

What did they do in the stock yards

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  • they got into the garbage business
  • they shoveled out the poop from the stock yards
27
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What where the Irish being paid in?

When the wanted to get paid in real money what did they get?

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  • company script
  • they got to land by the Erie Canal
28
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What are slaughterhouses?

What did they do for ethnic groups?

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  • Places where animals were raised and slaughtered
  • Slaughterhouses brought ethnic groups together
29
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What is Bubbly Creek?

Why did the Creek Bubble?

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  • a place where animal blood was dumped into
  • it would bubble because of all the carbon build-up from dead animals
  • the water flowed into lake Michigan and killed many people
30
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What are short line Railroads?

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  • Short railroads that deliver goods from short distances
  • 5 - 10 miles
31
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Who was Upton Sinclair?

What did he do?

What did the government do of what he showed?

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  • He was an Investigative Journalist
  • He shows what the horrors of the Chicago Stockyards are in a book called “The Jungle”
  • they made the FDA
32
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What where the years of the Gilded Age?

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1870 - 1900

33
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What are some inventions that came out of the Gilded age?

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Cars, Photos, telephone

34
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What where social classes like in this time?

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The Rich keep getting richer while the poor run rampant.

35
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How was the World Fair used by the cities/countries that hosted it?

What inventions where show cases in them?

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  • the hosts would show off inventions and taste food from across the world
  • The Faris wheel (Chicago)
  • Eiffel Tower (France)

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