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Reasons buffalo destroyed
- Building of railroads
- settlement
- competition for grasslands with cattle
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battle of little big horn
- 1876, George Armstrong Custer's last stand
- greatest victory for the Plains Indians
- Chief Sitting Bull vs. Custer
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Battle of Wounded Knee
- 1890
- unarmed Sioux Indians shot by U.S. Army
- ended the U.S. American Indian wars on the great plains
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Ghost dance
- last effort by American Indians to resist U.S. domination
- religious movement
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Gold found
- in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory
- 1874
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Assimilation
- emphasized education to train Indians
- convert to Christianity
- have segregated school just for Indians
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Dawes Act
- Abolish Indian Tribes
- 1887
- every Indian family got 160 acres of land to farm
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Long drive
the drive of cattle to the railroads to send them to the east coast
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Things Cowboys dreaded on the Long drive
- stampede
- rivers
- thunder and lightening
- drought
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Homestead Act
- 1862
- 160 acres free to any family
- settled on it for 5 years and it was yours to keep
- had to be 21
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Exodusters
African Americans who migrated west in the late 1870s
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Sod House
- made of turf strips chopped into blocks and stacked like bricks to make a home
- lasted 5-7 years
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4 inventions bring relief to farmers
- John deere- Steel plow 1837
- Joseph f Glidden- barbwire 1847
- Steel Mill got water from ground
- Cyrus McCormick- the reaper 1830's
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Grange and farmers Alliance
- Oliver H Kelley- founder of the grange movementÂ
- 1867
- created to help farmers politically economically and socially
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Populism
movement began by farmers who wanted economic and political reforms 1890s
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Election of 1892
- James Weaver- populist
- Grover Cleveland- democrat
- Benjamin Harrison- republican
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Election of 1896
- William McKinley-republican
- William Jenning Bryan- Democrat/populist
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Thomas Edison
- Father of Inventions
- invented the Light Bulb and the phonograph 1877
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Edwin Drake
Drilled first oil well
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Christopher Sholes
- invented the typewriter 1867
- and the QWERTY keyboard
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George Westinghouse
developed air brakes
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Wright Brothers
First Airplane flight
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Samuel F.B. Morse
developed the telegraph
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Alexander Graham bell
invented the telephone 1876
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Patent
your right to make, sell, and use an invention
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Transcontinental railroads
- built through the rocky mountainsÂ
- met up with the other railroad in Ogden Utah
- 1869
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Credit Mobilier
credit company got rich by turning in inflated bills
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Cornelius Vanderbuilt
- father of railroads
- monopolizes railroads
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Interstate commerce act
railroad rates had to be reasonable and just
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Capitalism
private business runs most industry and competitions will determine price of goods and worker price
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Laissez Faire
- the ideology of the industrial age
- no room for government in the market
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Social Darwinism
belief that society should do as little as possible to interfere with people's pursuit of success
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Andrew Carnegie
the father of the Steel industry
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John Rockefeller
founder of the Standard Oil Company
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Monopoly
complete control of a product/service
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Gospel of Wealth
- Andrew Carnegie
- stated what millionaires should and shouldn't do with their money
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Vertical integration
process in which a company buys out its suppliers
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Horizontal Integration
one company's control of other companies producing the same product
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trust
a group of separate companies under the control of a single managing board
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robber barons
business who stole their money from the public
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captains of industry
business leaders serve their nation in a positive way
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Sherman Antitrust Act
- 1890
- outlawed all monopolies and trusts that restrained trade
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Knights of Labor
- Founder- Uriah StephensÂ
- Leader- terrence Powderly
- Type-industrial union includes skilled and unskilled workers
- Tactics- arbitration- the settlement of disagreements between employees and workers by and impartial 3rd party
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American Federation of Labor AFL
- Founder- Samuel Gompers
- Type- craft union includes only skilled workers
- Tactics- collective bargaining- process in which workers negotiate as a group with employers
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reasons workers complain in the New Industrial Age
- Loss of freedom
- loss of identity
- long hours and low wages
- dangerous working conditions
- child labor
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Strike
stop working and protest until demand are met
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Mary Harris Jones
mother of the labor movement
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Great Railroad strike of 1877
first nationwide protest in U.S. history
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Haymarket Affair
- 1886
- labor related violence in Chicago
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Homestead strike
- 1892
- strike at Carnegie steel plant
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Pullman Strike
- 1894
- railway worker strike that is spread nationwide
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