Vocab
What is the Transcontinental Railroad?
A railroad that spans the entire country.
Farmers on the frontier were called __________________.
What is a company that wipes out its competitors and controls an industry and all its means of production
Monopoly
Plessy vs. Ferguson declared that _______________________________ facilities for white and colored people were legal.
Separate but equal
Where did most immigrants work?
Factories
What was the Dawes Act?
a law, enacted in 1887, that distributed reservation land to individual owners, including Native Americans.
_________________ signified the closing of the frontier.
__________________ monopolized the oil industry and ______________________ controlled the steel industry.
John D. Rockefeller; Andrew Carnegie
Where did people work before the Industrial Revolution?
Rural areas
Railroad companies set up __________________, which divided the U.S. into 4 time zones.
Standard time
What does the drawing on the chalkboard represent?
the Business Cycle
Why was the buffalo such an important animal for the Native Americans?
What is the era in the late 1800s that was a time of fabulous wealth as well as deep-rooted social problems?
The Gilded Age
New immigrants from Europe entered the United States through...
Ellis Island
What two immigrant groups predominantly built the transcontinental railroad?
Irish & Chinese
What is it called when you take cattle by foot to a railway?
What two leaders led the Sioux and who led the Seventh Cavalry during the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Custer
What were three inventions of the Industrial Revolution?
Bessemer steel process
Lightbulb (Edison)
Telephone (Bell)
Sewing Machine
Typewriter
What was a popular music style during the 1880s?
Ragtime
What led to the end of the Long Drives?
Price of beef dropped.
Barbed wire fences that led to the disappearance of the open range
Cattle froze to death in the harsh winters
What is an organization that influences enough votes to control a local government?
A political machine.
How did the United States government try to assimilate Native Americans into society?
Pushing them on reservations; forcing Native American children to go to boarding schools; giving adults free land but no money to buy supplies for farming.
What are three factors that encouraged industrial growth in the United States?
Plentiful natural resources
Growing population
Improved transportation
High immigration
New inventions
Investment capital
Government assistance
How did African-Americans and other immigrants face violence and prejudice in the U.S.?
Discrimination - Plessy vs. Ferguson, KKK, Chinese Exclusion Act
Hull Houses