Big Business Tycoon
A tycoon involved in the steel industry and who devoted his life to philanthropy.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This is the state where the Battle of Little Bighorn took place.
The process of using machines to make things that were previously done by hand.
What is Mechanization?
The first continuous railroad in the United States that connected to Eastern US to the Western US.
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
This law says that the US will give away acres of land in the west (if you already lived there and paid a small fee).
What is the Homestead Act?
A tycoon who created the world's first monopoly (oil).
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
This is the Lakota leader who fought alongside the Native Americans during the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
The act of giving money or time to help others, especially through charities.
What is philanthropy?
This event occurred on June 25, 1876.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
A wealthy and powerful business owner that uses unfair methods to make money.
What is a robber baron?
A strike that took place at Carnegies steel mill.
What is the Homestead Strike?
This is the leader of the U.S. Army who died at Bighorn along with most of his men.
Who is General Custer?
This is known as growth of businesses across a country.
What is industrialization?
The railroad makes transporting cows easier so it becomes a big money making industry.
What is the Cattle Boom?
What is a captain of industry?
Who is George Pullman?
The Battle of Little Bighorn is also known as this.
What is "Custer's Last Stand"?
This occurs when one company controls the entire market for a product or service, leaving no room for competition.
What is a monopoly?
An expensive and important resource is discovered on the west coast in 1848/1849, causing a mass rush to move there and make money.
What is the California Gold Rush?
The transcontinental railroad disrupted Native American life by killing nearly all the population of this animal.
What are buffaloes?
This tycoon was famous for bailing out the U.S. money system with a very big loan.
Who is J.P. Morgan
Who is J.D. Cameron?
A group of companies that work together to control a market and prevent competition.
What is a Trust?
A period in American history when the country experienced rapid economic growth and industrialization, but also a lot of inequality and corruption.
What is the Gilded Age?
This term refers to the god given right Americans believed they had to move and settle west.
What is Manifest Destiny.