mining & railroads
When the Civil War began, most of the railroad track in the United States was in the _______________________________.
East
American Indian tribes were ____________________________, which meant they traveled all over the Great Plains.
nomadic
The Industrial Revolution started in __________________________ in the 1700s and spread to the United States.
England
The _____________ won the Battle of Little Bighorn
Sioux
Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the ____________ in 1876
telephone
Railroads moved raw materials to __________________________.
factories
The 1862 Act promised 160 acres of free land to anyone who did not fight for the Confederacy. Large land-owning companies took much of the land illegally, however, and resold it to farmers at a higher price.
Homestead Act
A _____________________________ is when a company gets rid of competition and gets total control of a product.
monopoly
The first railhead was opened in ____________ _______________.
Abilene, Kansas
Thomas ____________ invented the light bulb.
Edison
Railroad companies brought workers from __________ and _____________ to do the dangerous work.
China and Ireland
By 1860, Texas was home to more than __________________________________ wild cattle.
3 million
John D. Rockefeller started a company that controlled 90 percent of the _________________ industry in the U.S. by the late 1870s.
petroleum/oil
The railroad helped change the United States into a mostly _________ country
industrial
Henry Ford’s invention of the moving _________ _________ allowed workers to dramatically reduce the amount of time needed to produce automobiles.
assembly line
_________________________ sprang up across the West. Most of these towns lasted until the gold or silver ran out and the miners left.
boomtowns
American Indian groups, such as the _______ ___________ and _________, lived on the Great Plains.
Sioux, Cheyenne and Apache
In the late 1800s, many Americans moved from _____________ to ______________.
farms to cities
American ranchers learned how to care for herds of cattle from _________.
Mexican vaqueros
Orville and Wilbur Wright built a ____________ that could stay in the air for up to half an hour.
plane
What did the railroads do for the country?
made the expansion of industry after 1865 possible. Created thousands of jobs in many industries. Opened more of the country to settlement and growth.
By the end of the 1880s, most American Indians lived on _________________________________________.
reservations
The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor were _____________________________________.
labor unions
Rockefeller and several partners start the Standard Oil Company in __________.
1870
_______________ guaranteed inventors the right to profit from their inventions.
Patents