Chapter 19 Flashcards

1
Q

What are subsidies?

A

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

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2
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What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?

A

The Central Pacific Company with chinese immigrants

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3
Q

What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?

A

The Union Pacific Company with many Irish immigrants

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4
Q

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

A

Chinese immigrants

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5
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The Union Pacific Railroad relied on workers that moved from what country?

A

Irish immigrants

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6
Q

What occurred on May 10, 1869?

A

Workers completed constrution of the Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Point

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7
Q

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

A

It was made of Gold

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8
Q

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

A

Divided the country into 4 time zones in 1883

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9
Q

What were open ranges?

A

Land not fenced in or divided into lots.

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10
Q

What were long drives?

A

When ranchers had to drive their cattle hundreds of miles

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11
Q

What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?

A

Tough weather conditions, rustlers who tried to steal cattle, and stampedes

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12
Q

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

A

The Homestead Act

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13
Q

How much land is an acre?

A

Roughly the size of a football field

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14
Q

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

A

The steel plow

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15
Q

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

A

Barbed wire

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16
Q

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

A

Chief Sitting Bull

17
Q

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

A

Colonel George Custer

18
Q

What was Chief Joseph’s famous quote about Native American attitudes at this
time?

A

From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever

19
Q

Who was the last Native American to surrender in the Apache Wars?

A

Geronimo

20
Q

What two things did the Dawes Act do?

A

Broke up reservation land individually and removed tribal affiliations

21
Q

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

A

Dress and act like european americans, taught english and cant use native languages , and traditional names were replaced by european names

22
Q

What caused the Wounded Knee Massacre?

A

They were mourning sitting bulls death then one gun dishcharged and the army opened fire and more than 200 sioux and 25 solduers were killed

23
Q

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

A

Wounded Knee

24
Q

What would the Transcontinental Railroad do?

A

Would connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts