Chapter 19 Study Guide Flashcards
What railroad group worked eastward from Sacramento?
Central pacific company
What railroad group worked westward from Omaha?
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?
Joined the tracks
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?
To reach railroads in many states, ranchers had to drive their cattle hundreds of miles on journeys
What were three challenges that faced the American Cowboy?
Cowboys would face tough weather conditions, rustlers who tried to steal cattle, and fighting stampedes
What was passed by Congress in 1862 to encourage people to move to the Great
Plains?
Homestead act
How much land is an acre?
Its the size of a football field
What invention by John Deere allowed farmers to break through the tough
Midwestern sod?
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
Who had his last stand at the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Curnel george custer
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”
