Machinery improvements
The machine that allowed women to excel in the clothes industry
What is the sewing machine
The farmers made groups known as _______
What are granges and farmers alliances
The thing that allowed farmers have interstate trade
What is the railroads
The reason bison were so valuable
What is their hides paid a high price on the market
What is Natives using the bison for meat, tools, clothes, ect.
The thing that started the major issues of the natives and settlers.
what is the expanding of the railroad and western expansion of agriculture and industry
The consequences of improved machinery allowing increased agricultural production
What is rising expenses and falling prices leaving farmers in debt
the farmer's alliances, granges, and _____ all supported the same cause
what is the greenback party
their main goal was to increase the amount of money in circulation effectively lowering the cost of credit to farmers.
The challenges farmers now faced with the expansion of the railroads opening them up to the regional market.
What is the reliance on a single cash crop and the fluctuating market affecting their yearly income
Percent of bison killed over 1800's
What is roughly 99%. Hunted from about 60 million down to 75.
The reason the natives often refused to leave their lands
What is them leaving their land effectively meant them abandoning their native culture
Effects of farm unrest
What is Midwestern legislatures “enacted” a series of laws controlling the prices/business of the “monopolized“ railroads (as farmers called it) allowing for farmers to keep producing and transporting crops at fair prices
The things the farmers alliances and the Granges supported.
What is supporting government regulation and ownership of the railroads.
They also supported telegraph companies, increase in the supply of money, a graduated income tax and a decrease in tariffs, the abolition of national banks, and the establishment of subtreasuries
With the expansion of railroads and the price of steel skyrocketing many Americans worked in the Industrial business for a wage. By 1900 about ___ of Americans worked for a wage.
What is 2/3
The result of whites pushing farther westward
what is native American and white wars
The Act that made natives angry because it gave white people their lands
What is the Homestead Act
The Spring Tooth Harrow was commonly used in the...for...
What is the 1870’s, smoothing the soil after plows left rough patches.
The in depth reason farmers made alliances and new parties
What is the farmers opposition to the commercialism of farming, making them rely on a monopolistic railroad to support their livelihood.
The effect the railroads had on congress and the presidents
what is passing reform minded laws to regulate this railroad industry.
The differences in which the whites and natives utilized bison
What is the whites only taking and selling the hide leaving the rest to waste
What is the natives using all parts of the bison from the hide to the bones for clothes, tools, and food.
The war that ended the long chain of Native American wars. Usually considered unnecessary.
What is the Nez Perce war of 1877
The machine that had the largest impact on the improvement of agricultural production.
What is the steel surfaced plow
honorable mentions include tractors (combine), 2 Bottom gang plow, 2 row planters
The biggest favorable result of the farm unrest
what is the interstate commerce act of 1887 (gave the government power to keep of rail road shipments.)
what is the Sherman Anti-trust act of 1890 (prohibited the restraints of trade ending monopolies.)
The product, reason, and process Andrew Carnegie used to make millions of dollars
What is steel, the expanding of railroads, and vertical integration allowing him to control the whole process from start to finish.
The phrase used to describe when large rail road companies would buy out smaller companies in the desire for more land causing a monopoly
What is Horizontal Integration
The Act that gave the president power to give natives (one person not whole tribes) land and grant them citizenship.
The loophole included in this act
What is the Dawes Act
What is that when they were considered citizens they lost their position in the tribe and that government could sell the land