Gold Rush & Pre-Guilded Age Flashcards
History test 3/15/24
Dec, 6, 1865
Slavery Dies in America
What was California the first to do?
They where the first to have fair divorce laws
- the woman gets 50% of the man’s earning.
What the did the British build in 1869
The Suez Canal in Egypt
What did the Morrill Act make?
How did this help new comers to the West?
The Department of Agriculture
- Junk Drawer of America
Help newcomers buy making State collages to teach Northerners how to work the land
What were some reasons the railroad didn’t want to build the railroad?
Where did they get funds from?
- mountains were a problem
- The British
Why did the Railroad need to build tunnels through mountains?
Who dug the tunnels and how?
- trains cant go over 1/2 degree incline
- the chines had to blow through mountains with dynamite
Leeland Stanford
- What did he do for in California during the Gold Rush?
- What does he do with all this money?
- 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
What where some methods of getting Gold during the Gold rush?
- Panning
- Sifter Boxing: fast way
- TNT
- big companies would water blast mountainside
Why did the water level rise in San Fransisco bay during the Gold rush near the Gold mining Site?
- As mountains were being blasted away the silts flowed down the San Fransisco Bay and flooded cities
What was Chicagos nick name and why?
- The city of Death
- People drank the nasty water and got sick
How did Rail Road companies feed their workers?
- Buffalo meat
- millions of buffalo
-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?
- 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
What where some prize parts of the buffalo?
- Tongue
- Hides
- Used to make machine belts
Who brought horses to AMERICA?
- Spain
Who is Buffalo Bill?
What did He do?
Why was he so good at what he did?
- 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
What the main work force of rail roads?
Irish and Chinese
What were Spurs on a railroad?
What would develop on these spurs?
- little branches of the railroad that would branch off from the main road road
-towns would develop on these spurs
What is “Hell on Wheels”
What other way would rail roads use to entertain there workers?
- gambling cars that railroad workers would use for entertainment
- Saloon cars
What’s the significance of the Gold Spike?
(2 reasons)
- it was the last spike to be driven in the railroad
-it connected to the wires to send the first message “Its Finished”
- What are railroad ties?
- what percentage of lumber went into the railroad?
- Peaces of wood that go under the track
- 20%
What where Republicans becoming in the time?
- a party for the rich to squeeze out the poor
Ratio of buffalo that where left to rot?
1 out of every 5
What was the Donner Party’s initial intent?
What happened?
- they originally wanted to get across the continental divide
- but winter came fast and they had to eat each other
1871 what happened to Chicago?
What happens after this year?
- Chicago burns to the ground
- There’s a clean slate, now talent from across the world can help rebuild Chicago
What was Henry Ford inspired by when he saw the stock yards?
- He made the assembly line for what he saw in Chicago
How big were the stock yards?
What surrounded the stock yards?
- 1 mile square with thousands of animals in it
- factories surround them (Slaughter houses)
What industry was Chicago known for?
- Stock yards
What did the Dutch do in Chicago?
What did they do in the stock yards
- they got into the garbage business
- they shoveled out the poop from the stock yards
What where the Irish being paid in?
When the wanted to get paid in real money what did they get?
- company script
- they got to land by the Erie Canal
What are slaughterhouses?
What did they do for ethnic groups?
- Places where animals were raised and slaughtered
- Slaughterhouses brought ethnic groups together
What is Bubbly Creek?
Why did the Creek Bubble?
- 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
What are short line Railroads?
- Short railroads that deliver goods from short distances
- 5 - 10 miles
Who was Upton Sinclair?
What did he do?
What did the government do of what he showed?
- 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
What where the years of the Gilded Age?
1870 - 1900
What are some inventions that came out of the Gilded age?
Cars, Photos, telephone
What where social classes like in this time?
The Rich keep getting richer while the poor run rampant.
How was the World Fair used by the cities/countries that hosted it?
What inventions where show cases in them?
- the hosts would show off inventions and taste food from across the world
- The Faris wheel (Chicago)
- Eiffel Tower (France)
