Railroads/Mining
Western Agriculture
Great Plains Indians
Big Business
Labor Unions
Inventions
100
What is a Boomtown?
A town quickly built around a new mine.
100
What is a Cowtown?
Towns that sprung up to support cattle drives.
100
What is a reservation?
a limited area set aside for American Indians.
100
What is a corporation?
a business owned by multiple investors
100
What is a Sweatshop?
a workplace where people labor long hours in poor conditions for low pay.
100
What did Alexander Graham Bell invent?
The Telephone.
200
What happened to Boomtowns when the local mine dried up?
They became Ghost towns.
200
What is a Vaquero?
Mexican and Spanish cowboys who taught American cowhands about riding, roping, and branding.
200
Travois and Teepees allowed Great Plains Indians to quickly pack up and moving. Why did Great Plains Indian Village need to be constantly moving?
To follow and hunt corrals of bison
200
What is a monopoly?
a company or group having control of all of the business of one particularly industry.
200
What is a strike?
The refusal of workers to do their jobs until their demands are met.
200
Name one of Thomas Edison's inventions.
Direct Current electricity, the lightbulb, the phonograph, the first power plant.
300
What is a vigilante?
Self-appointed law enforcers of dangerous Boomtowns.
300
What is Mechanization?
to change a process or action so that it is performed by machines.
300
At this massacre, the US army opened fire on 300 defenseless Lakota men, women and children. Marked the end of warfare between Plains Indians the US Army.
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
300
What is it called when multiple companies sell similar goods or services, fighting for the same customers. (this lowers prices, improves quality, and drives innovation)
Competition
300
What is Collective Bargaining?
The right of unions to negotiate with management for workers as a group.
300
How did the Mass Production of Henry Ford's Model T affect the price of cars?
Car were sold for much cheaper than before.
400
What was one of the negative impact of the mining boom?
Newly built mines polluted the water, miners cut down forests to build Boomtowns, and American Indians were forced from their land.
400
Describe the Homestead Act.
The Homestead Act promised 160 acres of free land to anyone who met four requirements:
1. They had to be the head of a household.
2. The cannot have fought for the Confederacy
3. They had to pay a small filing fee
4. They had to farm the land for 5 years.
400
At what battle did Lakota leader Sitting Bull and his 2000 warriors killed Colonel George Custer and all of his men.
The Battle of Little Bighorn
400
What is Vertical Integration?
Owning every step of a manufacturing process.
400
Name one way that the Knights of Labor differed from the AFL (American Federation of Labor)
400
In what area did airplanes first prove to be of practical value?
Military Operations
500
What does 'Transcontinental' mean?
Stretching across an entire continent.
500
Many of the western farmers were very poor and had to build their houses out of sod.
What is sod?
Soil held together by grass roots.
500
What was the primary goal of the Dawes Act?
to encourage American Indians to become independent farmers.
500
What is the Bessemer Process?
A chemical process which made it possible to produce strong steel at a lower cost. As a result, railroad companies began to use steel track.This demand spurred the rapid growth of the steel industry.
500
What factory fire led states to pass safety laws to protect workers.
The Fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
500
What is the moving assembly line?
a method of production in which workers stay in one place as products move along a track or belt.