Plains Indians
What two animals did Plains Indians depend on?
Buffalo and Horses
What is the term for an undeveloped area?
A Frontier
What process made making steel easier?
The Bessemer Process
What do you call it when one business controls an entire market?
A monopoly
What do you call it when workers stop working in protest?
A Strike
Where did the US government try to send Plains Indians?
To Reservations
What act was used to settle the Midwest?
The Homestead Act
What was the major oil product created in the 1850s?
Kerosene
What do you call it when multiple businesses work together to crush the competition?
A trust
What do you call it when workers threaten to strike to get better working hours?
Collective Bargaining
Name one tribe of Plains Indians
Apache, Comanche, Nez Perce, Navajo, or Sioux
What do you call a town that sprung up around a mine?
A Boomtown
Who invented the Electric Light?
Thomas Edison
Who was the billionaire who made his fortune in oil?
John D. Rockefeller
What political party fought for the rights of workers and farmers?
The Populist Party
What major religious movement occurred among Plains Indians?
The Ghost Dance
What was the name for the alliance of farmers?
The National Grange
What innovation did Henry Ford create?
The Assembly Line
What act helped break up monopolies and trusts?
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
What do you call it when workers band together to get better conditions?
A Union
At what battle did Sitting Bull defeat General Custer?
The Battle of Little Big Horn
Who were the majority of railroad workers?
Chinese and Irish Immigrants
Who invented the telephone?
Alexander Graham Bell
Which process involves taking over all parts of shipping and manufacturing a product?
Vertical Integration
Who ended the Pullman strike?
Federal Courts