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| Huge ranches that covered thousands of acres |
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| Gave land to homesteaders if they live on it for five years |
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| Slogan meant to suggest human settlement could change weather patterns |
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| Reason Cheyenne came to Fort Lyon before the Sand Creek Massacre |
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| Reason majority of people settled in Colorado, Arizona, and Montana |
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| Native American reaction to army supporting killing of buffalo |
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| Where confrontation between occurred because chief's followers continued Ghost Dance |
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| Blamed for defiance of Lakota not stopping Ghost Dance |
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| Led federal troops that were killed in Battle of Little Bighorn |
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| Union Pacific/Central Pacific |
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| Two railroads that built transcontinental railroad |
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| Labor shortage in California |
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| Forced Central Pacific Railroad to hire 10,000 Chinese workers |
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| Company that achieves control of an entire market |
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| How railroads companies raised needed money to build their railroads |
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| Created by American Railway Association in 1883 to make rail service more reliable |
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| Where construction of Union Pacific Railroad pushed west from |
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| Companies can only hire union members |
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| Most successful transcontinental railroad |
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| Credited with inventing electric light bulb, motion pictures, and phonograph |
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| Standard oil--Controlled 90% of oil-refining industries in the U.S. by 1880 |
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| Taiping Rebellion (1850), Poverty, Severe Unemployment |
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| Reasons Chinese immigrants migrated to the U.S. in the early 1860's |
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| Eastern and Southern Europeans |
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| More than half of all immigrants in the U.S. by 1890 |
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| Wanted to limit or cut off immigration |
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| Offered practical aid and religious counseling to the urban poor |
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| Take Jobs Away From Native-Born Americans |
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| Reason labor unions opposed immigration |
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| Elevated Railroad, Cable Cars, Subway System, Electric Trolley Cars |
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| First developed to relieve congestion on city streets |
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| Where most immigrants were processed into the U.S. after 1892 |
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| Passed in 1892, barred Chinese immigration for 10 years, prevented Chinese in U.S. already to become citizens |
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| Opened the Hull House in Chicago, inspired others to open community houses |
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| First president of American Federation of Labor |
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