Vocabulary
An overthrow of a government.
What is a revolution?
He invented the railroad sleeping car.
Who is George Pullman?
Tents made by stretching buffalo skins.
What are tepees?
This railroad system allowed for travel across the country.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
From about 1760-1840.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
To make changes in something established.
What is innovate?
He invented the first reliable steam engine.
Who is James Watt?
Two/Three states named after Native American tribes.
What is Arkansas (Arikaras) and North& South Dakota (Lakotas)?
Steel railways replaced this former mineral.
What is iron?
Self-appointed law enforcers.
What are vigilantes?
To negotiate the terms and conditions of a transaction.
What is bargaining?
He invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
The Native American tribe that lived on the Great Plains.
What are the Plain Indians?
He invented the air brake for railroad cars.
Who is George Westinghouse?
He had invented an oil refinery.
Who is John Rockefeller?
The exclusive possession or control of the supply.
What is a monopoly?
He owned the largest steel corporation in the world.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
This dried meat was made by Native Americans.
What is jerky?
These types of animals were transported on trains from Texas.
What are cattle? (Texas Longhorns)
At first this union was open to skilled workers only.
What are the Knights of Labor?
Financial assistance granted by the government.
What is a subsidy?
He invented refrigeration.
Who is Gustavus Swift?
An Apache chief who fought U.S. expansion into U.S. territory and resisted government attempts to force his people onto reservations.
Who is Geronimo?
The sudden growth of people to a particular area at once.
What is a boomtown?
This is a famous riot that occurred in Chicago where a bomb exploded and people died.
What is the Haymarket Riot?