Chapter 19

Question 0

What are subsidies?

Answer 0

Finical aid and land grants

Question 1

What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

Answer 1

Would connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts

Question 2

What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

Answer 2

The Central Pacific

Question 3

What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?

Answer 3

The Union Pacific

Question 4

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

Answer 4

China

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Ireland

Question 6

What occurred on May 10, 1869?

Answer 6

Workers completed construction of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point

Question 7

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

Answer 7

It was golden

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Divided the country into 4 time zones

Question 9

What were open ranges?

Answer 9

Land not fenced in or divided into lots

Question 10

What were long drives?

Answer 10

To reach railroads in many states , ranches had to drive their cattle hundreds of miles on journeys called long drives

Question 11

What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

Answer 11

Tough weather rustlers and fighting stampedes

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Homestead Act

Question 13

How much land is an acre?

Answer 13

Roughly the size of a football field

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Steel plow

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Barbed wire fencing

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Chief sitting bull

Question 17

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

Answer 17

” From where the sun now stands, I willof this time fight no more”

Question 18

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

Answer 18

Geronimo

Question 19

What two things did the Dawes Act do?

Answer 19

Broke up reservation land individually and removed tribal affiliations

Question 20

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

Answer 20

To dress and act like Europeans they were taught English and and to change their names

Question 21

What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Answer 21

A gun disarmed

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Wounded knee