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Growth of the western population
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100
Big businesses having control over all other competition
What is monopolies and trusts
100
An association of workers, formed to bargain for better working conditions and higher wages.
What are unions
100
Changed the way of life and encouraged settlement westward.
What is the rise of the railroads
100
Sioux chief who led the attack on Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn
What is Sitting Bull
100
Native American group who lived on the Great Plains long before the pioneers arrived
What are Sioux Indians
200
business structure where individuals invest in a business by purchasing parts in it called shares.
What is a corporation
200
their goal was to eliminate competition and instead create a monopoly or total control of an industry.
What are robber barons
200
Railroads helped finish the goal of...
What is the Manifest Destiny
200
U.S. soldiers went there to confiscate weapons from the Sioux. A gun was fired––nobody knows by whom––and U.S soldiers then opened machine-gun fire, killing more than 300 Sioux. This ended the Native Americans’ long conflict against Americans settling Native American lands.
What is Wounded Knee massacre
200
He combined unions to increase their strength.
What is Samuel Gompers
300
governor of NY; Standard Oil Company; Horizontal integration as business method (a strategy used by a business or corporation that seeks to sell a type of product in numerous markets)
What is John D. Rockefeller
300
received a patent for the incandescent light bulb, inventor of the phonograph and the "kineoscope"
Who is Thomas Edison
300
Building the rails was dangerous work, and so the United States assigned
What are Chinese immigrants
300
a treaty with the U.S. government promising “no white person or persons shall be permitted to settle upon or occupy”
What is the Sioux Treaty of 1868/ The Treaty of Fort Laramie
300
An unsuccessful strike led by Eugene Debs because of wage reductions. The strike occurred in the summer of 1894. It caused a shutdown of most of the nation's freight and passenger traffic west of Detroit, Michigan. Things got so bad that the strikes caused riots and sabotage.
What is Pullman Strike 1894
400
Industrialist and philanthropist;self-made steel tycoon and one of the wealthiest 19th century U.S.
What is andrew carnegie
400
law that reversed the provisions of the Dawes Act of 1887; established the self-rule of Native American Lands
What is the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
400
Steelworkers, lumberjacks, miners, and conductors.
What are jobs created from railroads
400
After the civil war, this group of people competed with newcomers seeking rural livelihoods
What are the Native Americans.
400
A portal on an island in the New York Harbor through which immigrants entered America.
What is Ellis Island
500
Allowed big business to expand their power without having the government intervene in their affairs.
What is Laissez faire
500
was formed in order to regulate interstate commerce.
What is Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
500
The railroads were the biggest customers of this industry, because thousands of this product were laid.
What is the steel industry
500
United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the Indian Wars. defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, against a coalition of Native American tribes composed almost exclusively of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors. "Last Stand"
Who is George A. Custer
500
policy of minimal government involvement in economics and society; often used to describe Britains initial approach to the economics of its american colonies.
What is laissez-faire