Native American Life
Populist Movement
New Inventions
Labor Movement
Misc. Mean White Men
100
the center of Native American life, provides most of their basic needs
What is the buffalo
100
purpose is education, social club, that eventually fights for legislation against railroads
What is the Grange
100
this was used by Edwin Drake in 1859 to drill for oil
What is the steam engine
100
working conditions that led workers to unite
What is 12 hour work days, 6-day workweeks, no vacation, no sick leave, no injury compensation
100
purpose was to "Americanize" natives and break up their reservations
What is the Dawes Act (1887)
200
to give up way of life, join dominant culture
What is assimilation
200
populism definition
What is movement of the people
200
this process changes construction and how American cities look
What is the Bessemer Steel Process
200
first large-scale national organization
What is National Labor Union
200
company that pocketed profits due to being over payed for laying railroad tracks
What is Credit Mobilier
300
700 US troops attack and kill over 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho
What is the Massacre at Sand Creek
300
economic reforms populists wanted, and political reforms populists wanted
What is economic: increased money supply, graduated income tax, federal loans. political: senate election by popular vote, secret ballot, 8hr work day
300
in addition to the light bulb, Thomas Edison invented
What is a system of production from electrical production and distribution
300
what did the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor support
What is an 8-hour work day, equal pay, and arbitration
300
Social Darwinism says that the poor must be
What is lazy and inferior
400
belief that _____ control the natural world
What are powerful spirits
400
this signaled the end of the populist party
What is the election of President McKinley
400
these two inventions led to a shift in the work force leading to 40% of clerical workers being women
What is the typewriter and the telephone
400
three main strikes during the labor movement discussed in the notes
What is the Haymarket Affair, the Homestead Strike, and the Pullman Company Strike
400
Rockefeller and Robber Barons profit by
What is paying laborers low wages and underselling others
500
when did government treaties define specific tribe boundaries bonus: what discovery led to this?
What is the 1850s? what is GOLD!
500
legacy of populism
What is proof that powerless can organize, agenda of reforms
500
railroads led to the creation of
What are global time zones
500
two different types of monopolies
What is vertical integration and horizontal integration
500
Custer and 700 troops attack 7000 Sioux Native Americans, all the troops die within hours
What is Custer's Last Stand
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