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Chapter 19 Flashcards

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1
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What are subsidies?

A

Financial aid,and land grants

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What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

A

The central pacific company

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What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?

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The union pacific

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The Central Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?

A

Chinease

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The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?

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Irish

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What occurred on May 10, 1869?

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Workers completed construction of the transcontinential at promontory point

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What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?

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It is the spike that joined the two tracks

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What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?

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Divided the country into 4 time zones

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What were open ranges?

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Land not fenced in or divided into lots

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What were long drives?

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Where ranchers drove tjeir cattle for long journeys or miles

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What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

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Weather conditions, rustlers who tried to steal cattle, and fighting off stampedes

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What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains?

A

Homestead act

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How much land is an acre?

A

Roughly a football field

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What invention by John Deere allowed farmers to break through the tough
Midwestern sod?

A

Steelplow

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What was used to keep livestock in a contained area and to mark territory?

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Barbed wire

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What Sioux chief didn’t want to sell the Black Hills area of the Dakotas to the US
Gov’t?

A

Sitting bull

17
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Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?

A

Crazy horse

18
Q

What was Chief Joseph’s famous quote about Native American attitudes at this
time?

A

From where the sun now stands, I fight no more forever

19
Q

Who was the last Native American to surrender in the Apache Wars?

A

Geronamio

20
Q

What two things did the Dawes Act do?

A

Broke up reservation land individually, and removed tribal attiliantions

21
Q

What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding
schools?

A

Dress,act,english, and had new names were the things the native American kids were taught and had to do

22
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What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

A

The U.S. Army sent soliders to collect the sioux’s weapons and one of the rifles discharged (went off,fired)

23
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What battle caused the end of armed conflict between the US and Indians?

A

Wounded knee

24
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What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

A

Connect the atlantic and pacific coasts

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