Chapter 19 Flashcards
What are subsidies?
A sum of money granted by the government
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?
Chinese
The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?
Ireland
What occurred on May 10, 1869?
The golden spike event
What was significant about the final spike in the Transcontinental Railroad?
Where it joined the tracks
What did the American Railway Association do to our country in 1883?
It divided the country into 4 time zones
What were open ranges?
Land not fenced in
What were long drives?
Whenever ranchers drove the cattle for hundreds of miles at a time
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
The weather,rustlers who tried to steal the cattle, and fighting 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?
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
