Big Business
This oil tycoon built a powerful business empire by buying out competitors.
Who is John D. Rockefeller?
Workers formed these organizations to fight for higher wages and shorter workdays.
What are labor unions?
Many Americans moved west looking for these things.
What are land, jobs, and opportunity?
The U.S. government often forced Native Americans to live in these areas.
What are reservations?
This early farmers’ organization originally focused on improving farmers’ social lives.
What is the Grange Movement?
This steel industry leader controlled every step of the steel-making process to reduce costs.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
Workers hoped unions would help them earn higher ______.
What are wages / pay?
This form of transportation helped connect the West to eastern cities.
What are railroads?
This important animal provided food, clothing, and shelter for Plains tribes.
What is the buffalo?
Settlers who broke tough prairie soil to plant crops were often called this term.
What are sodbusters?
This period of rapid factory growth and machine production transformed the U.S. economy after the Civil War.
What is industrialization?
Workers protested unfair conditions by doing this instead of working.
What is going on strike / striking?
Cowboys drove cattle long distances in events known as these.
What are long drives?
This government policy tried to force Native Americans to become farmers and adopt American culture.
What is the Dawes Act?
This law encouraged settlers to move west by offering 160 acres of land if they farmed it for several years.
What is the Homestead Act?
This early labor organization fought for improved working conditions in the late 1800s.
What is the Knights of Labor?
These industries were common in the western economy?
What are mining, farming, and ranching
Many workers felt factories were dangerous because they lacked this.
What are safety measures?
Some towns in the West grew very quickly when valuable resources were discovered but declined just as quickly when resources ran out.
What are mining towns (or boomtowns)?