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A Nation Expands and Industrializes
Indians, Cowboys, and Industry
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History
10th Grade
11/03/2009

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Great Plains
Definition
grasslands in west-central portion of the United States.
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Treaty of Fort Laramie
Definition
United States closes trail; Sioux move to reservations.
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Battle of Little Big Horn
Definition
a battle where Custer took 200 men against thousands of Native Americans. Custer suffered a terrible defeat. The rest of the men made up the Seventh Calvary.
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Assimilation
Definition
natives give up their way of life and join white culture.
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Dawes Act
Definition
gives land to individual natives; sell remainder of land to settlers; money for farm implements for natives. To "Americanize" the Native Americans.
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Battle of Wounded Knee
Definition
the Seventh calvary killed 300 unarmed Native Americans
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Longhorn
Definition
a sturdy, short-tempered breed brought by Spain; able to survive on poor food sources and with minimal water.
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Chisholm Trail
Definition
major cattle route from San Antonio to Kansas.
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Homestead Act
Definition
a U.S. law enacted in 1862, that provided 160 acres in the west to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household and would cultivate the land for five years.
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Morril Act
Definition
laws enacted in 1862 and 1890 to help create agricultural colleges by giving federal land to states.
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Bonanza Farms
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enormous farms on which a single crop is grown.
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Grange
Definition
the Patrons of Husbandry- a social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th Century.
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Farmers' Alliance
Definition
group of farmers, or those in sympathy with farming issues, who sent lectures from town to town to educate people about agriculture and rural issues.
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Populism
Definition
a late 19th Century political movement demanding that people have a growing voice in government and seeking to advance the interests of farmers and laborers.
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Bimetallism
Definition
the use of both silver and gold as a basis for a national monetary system.
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Gold Standard
Definition
a monetary system in which the basic unit of currency is deferred in turns of an amount of gold.
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William Jennings Bryan
Definition
former Nebraska congressman, editor of the Omaha World-Herald, delivered an impassioned address to the assembled delegates.
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Bessemer Process
Definition
a cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850.
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Thomas Edison
Definition
a pioneer in the new industrial frontier and creater of the lightbulb.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Definition
the co-inventer of the telephone along with Thomas Watson.
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Transcontinental Railroad
Definition
a railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869.
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Credit Mobiller
Definition
a construction company formed in 1864 by owners of the Union Pacific Railroad, who used it to sell of railroad profits for themselves.
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George Pullman
Definition
an inventor that created the Pullman sleeping car
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Munn v. Illinois
Definition
a 1877 case in which the Supreme Court up held states' regulation of railroads for the benefit of farmers and consumers.
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Interstate Commerce Act
Definition
a law enacted in 1887 that established the federal governments's right to supervise railroad activities and created a five member Interstate Commerce Commision to do so.
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Andrew Carnegie
Definition
(a Scottish businessman) built Pittsburg Carnegie Steel Company
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Vertical Integration
Definition
a style of management control that are united through the hierachy with a common ownner.
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Horizontal Intergration
Definition
a type of ownership and control that is used by a business or corporation that seeks to sell a type of product in numerous markets.
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Social Darwinism
Definition
ideas based on a concept that competition among all individuals, groups, nations, or ideas drives social evolution in human societies
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John D. Rockefeller
Definition
revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy.
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Sherman Antitrust Act
Definition
made to oppose the combination of entities that could potentially harm competition; such as monopolies.
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American Federation of Labor
Definition
the first federations of labor unions in the US; founded in Columbus, Ohio
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Eugene V. Debs
Definition
an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World
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Industrial Workers of the World
Definition
an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio
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Industrialization
Definition
the process of social and economic change where by human group is transformed.
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