Flashcards in Chapter 19 Deck (24):
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What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?
Connect the Atlantic and Pacific Coast
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What are subsidies?
Financial aid and land grants
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What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
The Central Pacific
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What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?
The Union Pacific
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The Central Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
The Chinese immigrants
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The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Irish immigrants
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What occurred on May 10, 1869?
Workers completed construction of the Transcontinental Railroad at the Promontory point
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What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
It was a golden spike
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What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
Divided the country into 4 time zones
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What were open ranges?
Land not fenced in or divided into lots
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What were long drives?
Ranchers had to drive their cattle hundred miles on a journeys
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What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
Tough weather conditions, rustlers, and fighting off stampedes
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Who had the last stand at the Battle of Bighorn?
George Clusters
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What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great Plains?
The Homestead Act
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How much land is an acre?
About as big a football field
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What invention by John Deere allowed farmers to break through the tough Midwestern sod?
Steel Plow
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What was used to keep livestock in a contained area and to mark territory?
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?
Chief Sitting Bull
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What was Chief Joseph’s famous quote about Native American attitudes at this time?
"From where the sun now stand, I will fight no more forever"
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Who was the last Native American to surrender in the Apache Wars?
Geronimo
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What two things did the Dawes Act do?
Broke up reservation land and removed tribal affiliations
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What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding schools?
Taught how to dress and act like European American and they changed their names
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What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?
Because one gun discharged while they were getting the weapons
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