People
He made his fortune in the oil business during the Gilded Age
John D Rockefeller
This was a negative term used to describe big business owners during the Gilded Age
Robber Barons
The idea that the US should expand from Sea to Sea
Manifest Destiny
inventor of the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
What groups of people were primarily impacted by the invention of barb wire?
Farmers, Ranchers, Cowboys
He made a fortune in the railroad business during the Gilded Age
Cornealius Vanderbilt
What does Gilded mean?
Shiny, expensive outer layer withg a cheap and rough material underneath
Where were Natives forced to live after the signing of the Indian Removal Act?
West of the Mississippi
Who was seen as the most anti-Native American President in US History and why?
An action that the U.S. government took to help Americans fulfill the goal of western expansion?
The Homestead Act
He made a fortune as a banker and financier during the Gilded Age
JP Morgan
What is the Dawes Severalty Act
Regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. It authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals.
What was one major cause of the huge increase in Westward expansion by the Europeans into Indian Territory?
Gold Rush
Inventor of the Lightbulb
What Battle was General Custard and the 7th Calvary defeated?
Battle of Little Big Horn
He made his fortune in the steel business during the Gilded Age
Andrew Carnegie
when one business controls an entire industry
Monopoly
What happened at Wounded Knee Creek?
A gun was fired by mistake during the native ritual dance, which caused the soldiers to open fire on the natives
Explain Event: Homestead Strike
violent labour dispute between the Carnegie Steel Company and many of its workers that occurred on July 6, 1892, in Homestead, Pennsylvania. The strike pitted the company’s management (which included owner American industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie and American industrialist Henry Clay Frick), the strikebreakers (replacement workers) who had been hired, and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency against members of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, who worked for the company. A gun battle resulted in which a number of Pinkerton agents and strikers were killed and many were injured.
What were the primary methods by which the American government dealt with American Indians during the period of western settlement?
Extermination, relocations, assimilation
Who is the most recognized Sioux for his involvement in the Wounded Knee massacre incident?
Sitting Bull
buying up of competitors
horizontal integration
What constituted a significant change in the treatment of American Indians during the last half of the nineteenth century?
What was the Haymarket Affair
he Haymarket Affair, also known as the Haymarket Riot, was a violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers’ rights.