American West
The Chisolm trail was used to move what from Texas to Kansas
Cattle
Complete control over an industry
Monopoly
What mass transit system did cities use in the late 1800’s to ease congestion on streets
Subways
This organization united farmers across the nation
National Grange
African Americans who moved to the West to escape restrictive practices in the South were known as what
Exodusters
Immigrants from Asia entered the US through what immigration station
Angel Island
Settlers on the plains often made these kinds of houses out of strips of prairie grass with roots and soil attached
Sod Houses
This form of business has ownership held by stockholders
Corporation
Skyscrapers became practical after the invention of this
Safety Elevator
“it insures the survival of the fittest in every department” is an example what theory on society
Social Darwinism
These kind of laws required separate railroad cars for whites and African Americans
Jim Crow
This is the name of the political operations in cities that often resulted in corruption
Political Machines
What tribe did chief Joseph belong to
Nez Perce
Risk takers that use their own money and talents to launch new ventures
Entrepreneurs
This was the process uses to purify molten iron and convert it to steel
Bessemer Process
Name for workplaces set up in tenement buildings
Sweatshops
Believed that African Americans would have to accept segregation temporarily
Booker T. Washington
Panning for gold is called
Placer mining
This individual lost the Battle of the Little Bighorn
George Armstrong Custer
Nickname for Oil prospectors
Wildcatters
This material transformed the United States into a modern industrial nation
Steel
The mission of this movement was to protect workers
Labor movement
African Americans should strive for full rights immediately through action and education was the attitude of what individual
W.E.B. Dubois
This turned public lands out west into private property
Homestead Act
Turned tribe members into individual property owners
Dawes Act
Taking over other companies that produce the same product is known as what
Horizontal integration
This person invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
This riot happened when a bomb went off in Chicago
Haymarket Riot
Congress passed this act because many Americans felt the Chinese were taking their jobs
Chinese Exclusion Act
This was one of the largest discoveries of Silver
Comstock Lode