Chapter 19 Flashcards
(24 cards)
What are subsidies?
Financial aids and land grants to companies that were willing to build this line
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
The Central Pacific Company
What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?
The Union Pacific Company
The Central Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
China
The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Ireland
What occurred on May 10, 1869?
Workers completed construction of the transcontinental railroad at promontory point
What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?
It would connect the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
It was golden
What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
Divided the country into 4 time zone
What were open ranges?
Texas plains where thousands of wild longhorns roamed
What were long drives?
When ranchers drove their cattle over hundreds of miles
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
Stampedes, tough weather conditions, and rustlers
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?
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?
Barb wire
What Sioux chief didn’t want to sell the Black Hills area of the Dakotas to the US Gov’t?
Cheif Sitting Bull
Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Cheif Josef
What was Chief Joseph’s famous quote about Native American attitudes at this time?
From where the sun now stands, i will fight no more forever.
Who was the last Native American to surrender in the Apache Wars?
Geronimo
What two things did the Dawes Act do?
It broke up reservation land individually and removed tribal afflications
What three ways were Native American students taught to assimilate in boarding schools?
Dress and act like European Americans, had to speak english, names were changed to american names
What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?
A gun was accidently discharged
What battle caused the end of armed conflict between the US and Indians?
Wounded Knee
