Gilded Age Terms
The Railroad
This person was an entrepreneur concerned with oil.
Rockefeller
This invention extended the working hours.
The Lightbulb
Who "Won the Peace" after the war?
The South
Native American Chief who was killed in the attempt to arrest him
Sitting Bull
The movement of people from of farms to cities.
Urbanization
Credited with patents for over a thousand inventions, one which helped people work later in the day.
Thomas Edison
This connected the country from New York to California in 1869.
Transcontinental Railroad
Basically, what did each southern state have to do to be readmitted into the union?
Agree to the 13th amendment which abolished slavery, they had to create new state constitutions as well.
Battle where the 7th Cavalry was wiped out by Native Americans
Little Bighorn or Greasy Grass
The movement from handcrafted items to machine crafted.
Industrialization
This man ran the banking industry in the Gilded Age
J.P. Morgan
This man invented the telephone.
Alexander Graham Bell
How did Abraham Lincoln want to treat the soldiers at the surrender from the south?
With compassion. Let them go home, and return to their lives
What was the purpose of the Ghost Dance?
Native Americans believed by doing the dance, and adhering to the teachings of it, that they could bring back the buffalo, their way of life, and that the white man would leave and not return
The Railroad which began in San Francisco, and used primarily Chinese Immigrants for their workforce
Central Pacific
This man ran the steel industry and was known to give donations to many people.
Andrew Carnegie
This allowed communication through the use of morse code
The Telegraph
List how the south gained more power after the war
Each freed slave counted towards their populations which increased representation. With time, their state governments were able to pass laws which restricted the rights of African Americans in the south.
Name one native leader besides sitting bull who was at Little Bighorn
Crazy Horse, Chief Gall, White Bull
The biggest danger for Cowboys on the trail
Stampedes
Ran the railroad business
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Henry Ford introduced this to mass produce cars
the assembly line
Who became President after Abe Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
Name of the Reservation Sitting Bull was taken to after turning himself in
Standing Rock