SETTLING THE WEST 1
What is the name of the dance that celebrated the hope that the whites would disappear, the buffalo would return and Native Americans would unite with their ancestors?
Ghost Dance
True or False: The Dawes Act was a failure.
True
What is it called when one company gains control of the entire market?
Monopoly
Who were the 3 Robber Barons?
J.P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
A ________ is a tax on imported goods
Tariff
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable.
Manifest Destiny
Describe the culture of the Great Plains Indians.
(Name 2)
Mostly nomads- roamed following buffalos
Extended family networks, Close relationships with nature
Religion based on the belief in the spiritual power of the natural world
Who created the first trust, which merged businesses by allowing a person from company A to manage another person's property?
John D. Rockefeller
Name three types of workers who worked on building the railroads.
Civil War Veterans ; Irish Immigrants
Farmers ; Miners
Cooks ; Ex Convicts
Chinese Workers
What were some of technological innovation during the 2nd Industrialization Revolution.
Name 2
Bessemer Process ; Elevator
Telegraph ; Electric Light Blub
Telephone ; Elevator
Transatlantic Cable
Which act encouraged the settlement of the Great Plains by allowing an individual to claim a plot of land and receive a title for that land after paying a $10 registration fee and living there for five years?
Homestead Act
Name one of the two reasons why Native Americans left their reservations.
Preferred hunting buffalos on open plains
American settlers were violating the treaties
Who created the Bessemer process that would allow for the mass production of Steel and would change the landscape of the US economy?
Andrew Carnegie
What was the name of the trust that made monopiles illegal?
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What was the name of the process that allowed for mass production of steel for the 1st time in history?
Bessemer Process
What was the name of the act that allowed each head of household to allot 160 acres of reservation land for farming and the remaining land was sold to American settlers.
Dawes Act
What was the name of the massacre when the Native Americans defied the government by performing the ghost dance and the police was sent to arrest the sitting bull for defiance.
Wounded Knee Massacre
What is the name of the labor union that was created for skilled and unskilled workers and collapsed shortly after the Haymarket Riot?
Knights of Labor
What is the name of the integration that combined firms that were engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation?
Horizontal Integration
This labor union was created to focus on improving working conditions and raising wages but this union was hostile to immigrants and African Americans.
American Federation of Labor
What was the name of the battle that portrayed General Custer as victim after he attacked the Lakota/Cheyenne tribe for leaving their reservations?
Battle of Little Big Horn
What events led to the formation of the Indian Peace Commission?
Fetterman's Massacre & Sand Creek Massacre
Trains in the West was brought to a standstill when workers refused to work on the car and government troops were sent in to end the strike. What was the name of the strike?
Pullman Strike
The belief that the situation with the Native Americans would improve if the Native Americans could be absorbed into American society as landowners and citizens was known as
Assimilation
What was the name of the riot where labor unions were arrested due to an explosion?
Haymarket Riot