Vocab
What is the term for when a business dominates all or nearly all of the market in a particular good or industry?
Monopoly
What is the term a reason why a person might try to leave a place to go to another?
Push Factor
Lightbulb, electricity, movies
Who were the leaders of the Sioux during the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull
How many planes were hijacked in the 9/11 terrorist attack?
4
KKK
What were pull factors for Chinese Immigrants to the US?
Jobs, Stability, freedom
What company did John D Rockefeller found that became the first trillion dollar company?
Standard Oil
What was the estimated population of the Bison before European contact?
30-60 million
Which Amendment outlawed slavery?
13th
What was the act that prevented the immigration of Chinese laborers in the late 1800s
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Name 3 strategies that workers used to challenge big businesses in the 18 and 1900s
Striking
Collective Bargaining
Sit in
Protesting
Which dance was practiced in order to gain access to spiritual power by putting oneself through ordeals like hooking skin, exposure to the elements, and scarring of the skin?
Sun Dance
What is the term for the process of making steel that allowed it to be made significantly more cheaply and significantly more strong?
Bessemer Process
Define Nativism
The belief that immigrants are not good for a country
What act tried to break up monopolies at the end of the 1800s and early 1900s?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What were the goals of the Ghost Dance?
Revive dead ancestors
Resurrect Jesus as a Native American
Return the Bison
Stop bullets with Ghost shirts
Washing away of white people's culture
What is the difference between horizontal and vertical integration?
Horizontal- when a company controls all of a particular industry
Vertical-when a company controls all of the supply chain and inputs for its products
What was the role of Ellis AND Angel Island for Immigration?
Ellis Island- handled immigrants arriving from the Atlantic Ocean and Europe
Angel Island- handled immigrants coming from the Pacific Ocean and Asia
What term indicates the belief that the government should not be involved at all in the economy?
Laissez-Faire
What was the US Army unit that was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn? Why is that significant for later events?
7th cavalry, they committed the Wounded Knee Massacre