Key Terms
Invented the steel plow. His name is synonymous with tractors today.
John Deere
Name at least 2 problems farmers encountered on the Great Plains:
Storms, drought, locusts, wind, snakes, etc.
This was done prior to the battle of Wounded Knee- it was meant to be a ritual that restored the lands and the buffalo to the Native Americans, but U.S. soldiers got scared and started shooting.
The Ghost Dance
This business man bought small railroads to create a large railroad.
Who is Cornelius Vanderbilt
What invention did Alexander Graham Bell create?
What is the telephone
When you buy out all of the suppliers of a particular manufactured product so none of your competitors can compete with you:
Vertical integration
Name of an African American who left the South to claim land in the Great Plains:
Exoduster
Leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux
Sitting Bull
Pair of managers working for the Erie Rail Line who inflated the stock prices by printing more stock just before Vanderbilt was slated to purchase out the entire company:
Fisk and Gould
Who was credited for the creation of the incandescent light bulb?
Who is Thomas Edison
'Survival of the fittest' applied to business practices was also known as:
Social Darwinism
Because there was very little of this resource in the Great Plains, most people lived in soddies.
Trees
Name of the general in charge of overseeing the Indian Wars in the West:
George A. Custer
Who was the robber baron who made his fortune in the steel industry by using vertical integration?
Andrew Carnegie
This technique involving injecting air into iron ore to remove the carbon and more efficiently turn it into steel is known as...
What is Bessemer process
This law allowed people to claim 160 acres of land in the Great Plains for only a 10$ filing fee.
Homestead Act
This system made it much easier and safer to travel to the Great Plains because you didn't have to rely on a wagon anymore.
Transcontinental Railroad
Term used to describe the process of forcing Native Americans to give up their own culture, speak in English, and pick up American values:
Assimilation
What was a nickname given to Cornelius Vanderbilt?
The Commodore
In 1867 Christopher Sholes invented the __________?
What is the typewriter
Bonanza farm
What percent of the total wheat production does the Great Plains account for today in the U.S.?
51%
Custer died at the battle of..
Little Bighorn
Who made their fortune by creating trusts and monopolizing the oil industry?
Who is John D. Rockefeller
What group did the invention of the typewriter bring into the American work place?
Women