Chapter 19 Flashcards
What are subsidies?
Money or goods given by a person or government to support a project that benefits the public
What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?
Connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
Central pacific company
What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?
The Union Pacific company
What occurred on May 10, 1869?
Workers completed construction of the transcontinental railroad at promontory point
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
It was made of gold
What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
Divided the country into 4 time zones
What were open ranges?
Land not fenced in or divided into lots
What were long drives?
Journey many ranch hands had to make to get their cattle to a railroad
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
Tough weather, rustlers who tried to steal cattle, and they had to fight off stampedes.
What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains?
The homestead act
How much land is an acre?
It’s roughly the size of a football field
What invention by John Deere allowed farmers to break through the tough
Midwestern sod?
The steel plow
What was used to keep livestock in a contained area and to mark territory?
Barbed wire
What Sioux chief didn’t want to sell the Black Hills area of the Dakotas to the US
Gov’t?
Chief sitting bull
