The king of the Oil Industry during the Industrial Revolution.
Who is John D. Rockefeller
The event usually considered the "end of the Indian wars".
What is the Wounded Knee Massacre.
This is an example of the many hardships facing homesteaders in the 1880s and 1890s.
What are blizzards, drought, overproduction.
An industrialist who got his start in steel manufacturing, then started the Gospel of Wealth idea.
What is Andrew Carnegie.
The Building of the Transcontinental Railroad and the Homestead Act paid for by the Federal government by is an example of this kind of government action.
What are Government Subsidies
An example of an economic activity in the west which included the search for valuable resources like gold and silver, timber, and oil.
What are extractive industries
An example of the justification of wealth created by a small group of people despite the majority of people living in poverty by embracing charitable giving.
What is Social Darwinism or the Gospel of Wealth
Group of people suspected as having infiltrated the labor movement.
one of the two tribes that defeated Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, led by Sitting Bull
What are the Lakota or Arapaho.
The Democratic presidential candidate in 1896, supported by roughly half the Populist Party
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Replacement workers for strikes.