Changes on the Western Frontier quiz

• Building of railroads
• settlement
• competition for grasslands with cattle

• 1876, George Armstrong Custer's last stand
• greatest victory for the Plains Indians
• Chief Sitting Bull vs. Custer

• 1890
• unarmed Sioux Indians shot by U.S. Army
• ended the U.S. American Indian wars on the great plains

• last effort by American Indians to resist U.S. domination
• religious movement

• in the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory
• 1874

• emphasized education to train Indians
• convert to Christianity
• have segregated school just for Indians

• Abolish Indian Tribes
• 1887
• every Indian family got 160 acres of land to farm

the drive of cattle to the railroads to send them to the east coast

• stampede
• rivers
• thunder and lightening
• drought

• 1862
• 160 acres free to any family
• settled on it for 5 years and it was yours to keep
• had to be 21

African Americans who migrated west in the late 1870s

• made of turf strips chopped into blocks and stacked like bricks to make a home
• lasted 5-7 years

• John deere- Steel plow 1837
• Joseph f Glidden- barbwire 1847
• Steel Mill got water from ground
• Cyrus McCormick- the reaper 1830's

• Oliver H Kelley- founder of the grange movement 
• 1867
• created to help farmers politically economically and socially

movement began by farmers who wanted economic and political reforms 1890s

• James Weaver- populist
• Grover Cleveland- democrat
• Benjamin Harrison- republican

• William McKinley-republican
• William Jenning Bryan- Democrat/populist

• Father of Inventions
• invented the Light Bulb and the phonograph 1877

Drilled first oil well

• invented the typewriter 1867
• and the QWERTY keyboard

developed air brakes

First Airplane flight

developed the telegraph

invented the telephone 1876

your right to make, sell, and use an invention

• built through the rocky mountains 
• met up with the other railroad in Ogden Utah
• 1869

credit company got rich by turning in inflated bills

• father of railroads
• monopolizes railroads

railroad rates had to be reasonable and just

private business runs most industry and competitions will determine price of goods and worker price

• the ideology of the industrial age
• no room for government in the market

belief that society should do as little as possible to interfere with people's pursuit of success

the father of the Steel industry

founder of the Standard Oil Company

complete control of a product/service

• Andrew Carnegie
• stated what millionaires should and shouldn't do with their money

process in which a company buys out its suppliers

one company's control of other companies producing the same product

a group of separate companies under the control of a single managing board

business who stole their money from the public

business leaders serve their nation in a positive way

• 1890
• outlawed all monopolies and trusts that restrained trade

• Founder- Uriah Stephens 
• 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

• Founder- Samuel Gompers
• Type- craft union includes only skilled workers
• Tactics- collective bargaining- process in which workers negotiate as a group with employers

• Loss of freedom
• loss of identity
• long hours and low wages
• dangerous working conditions
• child labor

stop working and protest until demand are met

mother of the labor movement

first nationwide protest in U.S. history

• 1886
• labor related violence in Chicago

• 1892
• strike at Carnegie steel plant

• 1894
• railway worker strike that is spread nationwide