Chapter 19

Question 0

What are subsidies?

Answer 0

Financial aid and land grants, to companies that were willing to build this line

Question 1

What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

Answer 1

Connect the Atlantic and pacific coasts

Question 2

What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

Answer 2

Central pacific

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Chinese

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Irish

Question 5

What occurred on May 10, 1869?

Answer 5

Completed transcontinental railroad at promontary point

Question 6

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

Answer 6

It was gold

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Divided it into 4 time zones

Question 8

What were open ranges?

Answer 8

Land not fenced in or divided into lots

Question 9

What were long drives?

Answer 9

Ranchers that drove their cattle long distances

Question 10

What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

Answer 10

Weather,rustlers, and stampedes

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Homestead act

Question 12

How much land is an acre?

Answer 12

The size of football field

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Steel plow

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Barbed wire fence

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Sitting bull

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Chief Joseph

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 will fight no more forever.

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 reseration land individually and removed tribal afflitions

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Dress and act like European Americans and taught English and their names were changed to American names

Question 21

What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

Answer 21

Someone’s gun discharged

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Wounded knee