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This was a 2,000 mile wagon route in the US that connected the Missouri River to valleys in the Pacific Northwest. It was one of the primary means of east-west travel in the early-mid 19th century in the US.
What was the Oregon Trail?
This was a gold rush that began on January 24, 1848, when gold was found by James Marshall at Sutter's Mill.
What was the California Gold Rush?
This was a 1,912 mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern US rail network with the Pacific coast.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
These are the Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have historically lived on the Interior Plains of North America.
Who are the Plain Indians?
This was an American soldier and bison hunter who settled in the Kansas Territory in the mid-late 19th century.
Who was Buffalo Bill?
This was a gold rush that took place in the Dakota Territory in 1874 & reached its peak in 1877.
What was the Black Hills Gold Rush?
This was an act in the late 19th century that attempted to facilitate the assimilation of American Indians into American life by dividing tribal land into private allotments.
This was the means by which the American government attempted to socially assimilate American Indians through educational indoctrination processes.
What were boarding schools?
This is the term used to describe a corrupt union of businesses and the federal, state or local government.
What is crony capitalism?
This was a US federal law signed by President Chester Arthur on May 6, 1882, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
What was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
This term refers to an arrangement in which the supply chain of a company is integrated and owned by that company.
What is vertical integration?
These were a series of conflicts fought in the 18th & 19th centuries by European governments and colonists, and later by the US and Canadian governments and settlers against various American Indian and First Nation tribes.
What were the American Indian Wars?
This is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market.
What is a cartel?
This is the political policy of promoting the interests of native inhabitants against those of immigrants, including the support of restriction measures.
What is nativism?
This was a businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry, controlling the most extensive integrated iron and steel operations ever owned by an individual in the US.
Who was Andrew Carnegie?
This is when governments restrain from interfering in the workings of the free market.
What is laissez-faire?
This was an event that occurred in 1890 when US soldiers killed scores of unarmed American Indians after an accidental rifle discharge sent the crowds and the Army into a panic.
What was the Wounded Knee Massacre?
This was the primary spiritual leader of the Plains Indian movement known as the Ghost Dance.
Who was Wovoka?
This was a businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry, controlling the most extensive integrated iron and steel operations ever owned by an individual in the US.
Who was John D. Rockefeller?
This is exclusive control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service.
What is a monopoly?
This was a movement in the late 19th century that called for the renewing of society and a return to the traditional buffalo-based lifestyle of the Plains Indians.
What was the Ghost Dance Movement?
This occurs when a company acquires or merges with another company in the same industry to grow their existing business or prevent a competitor from gaining market shares.
What is horizontal integration?
This was an agreement that limited and protected the Sioux in the West Dakota region. It was breached by settlers after the discovery of gold in the Black Hills.
What was the Fort Laramie Treaty?
This was also known as the Immigration Act, and was the first federal law in the US to restrict immigration.
What was the Page Act of 1875?
This was when thousands of rural Americans moved to the cities.
What was the Great Migration?