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In 1876, this man is credited with inventing the telephone. A giant leap for communication!
Who is Alexander Graham Bell.
100
The idea of private land ownership was not central to the life and culture of this group in the 1800s.
What are the Plains Indians?
100
During the time of westward expansion, the phrase was used to describe the movement of cattle from Texas to railroad towns in the North.
What is the long drive.
100
They harmed railroad consumers by reducing price competition.
What are railroad trust?
100
The term for workers who replaced striking workers.
What are scabs?
200
Cross country rail companies and travellers were helped by the standardization of this unit which divided the country into four zones... greatly increasing efficiency and reducing confusion.
What are standardized time zones.
200
It was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War of 1876 and is often referred to as Custer's Last Stand by white people.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
200
in May 1862, this law opened up settlement in the western United States, allowing any American, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land in exchange for five years of settlement and improvement to the land.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
It was a time period that can be described as one of outward glitz but also less publicized corruption and poverty.
What is the Gilded Age?
200
They formed because 1) workers felt they were losing their dignity and identity in the workplace, 2) working conditions were getting more dangerous, 3) hours were long and pay was low.
What are labor unions?
300
This process allowed for the mass production of steel.
What is the Bessemer Process.
300
It is an Indian reference to learning white customs.
What is "walking the white road."
300
This industry influenced the cattle industry by 1) helping make the "long drive" economically possible, 2) transporting cattle to markets in the North and East and 3) leading farmers to fence their land which eventually ended open range ranching.
What is the railroad industry.
300
This Man of Steel would lower prices to undersell competitors.
Who is Andrew Carnegie?
300
It is what workers go on when they refuse to work as a form of protest.
What is a strike?
400
In 1880, George Pullman introduced this innovation to improve passenger comfort on long rail trips.
What is the sleeper cars.
400
It borders the site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, in which the 7th US Cavalry under Colonel James W. Forsyth massacred approximately 300 Sioux, mostly women and children, many unarmed.
What is Wounded Knee Creek.
400
It failed because the Indians were not given any farm equipment or instruction and many didn't even want to become farmers.
What is the Dawes Act.
400
It was a big scandal that famously demonstrated the corruption that can result when big business, in this case the railroad industry, gets too cozy with the government.
What is Credit Mobilier Scandal?
400
This New York tragedy led to changes in local safety labor laws and building codes for factories.
What is the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire?
500
Big Bertha, Flame Throwers and U-Boats are all new technology associated with this war.
What is World War I.
500
He was a medicine man and a leader of the allied tribes that lived in the Dakotas.
Who is Sitting Bull?
500
Indians and Historians often describe them as thieves that surround the Indian land.
What are the Indian Reservation Agents?
500
It was a theory supported by Big Business and meant limited government regulation of business.
What is laissez-faire?
500
He was a socialist party leader who was imprisoned for denouncing capitalism and supporting unions during WWI.
Who was Eugene V. Debs?