Settling the West
What two things attracted people to the western territories?
Mining and Ranching.
When was the Indian peace commission formed?
1867
Where was Petroleum first mined?
Pennsylvania
What is Stock?
The people who own the corporation are called stockholders because they own shares of ownership called stocks.
How many Europeans moved to America Between 1865 to 1914?
About 25 million Europeans moved to the U.S.
Define Hydraulic Mining?
To remove large quantities of earth and process it for minerals.
Who was George A. Cluster?
He was a lieutenant Colonel of the Seventh Cavalry.
Where was Thomas Alva Edison’s Laboratory located?
Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Economies of scale?
The cost of manufacturing is decreased by producing goods quickly in large quantities.
What is Nativism?
Extreme dislike of immigrants by native-born people
Where did Americans head to for gold and silver?
Rocky Mountains
What is the ghost dance?
ritual that celebrated a hoped for day of reckoning.
What year did Edison achieve international fame? With what invention of his?
1877 with the invention of the phonograph.
When was Knights of Labor founded?
1869.
What was Ellis Island used for?
It was used as a processing center for immigrants that came into the United States.
Why was life so difficult for people in the Plains?
Summer temperatures reaching 100 fahrenheit and above, Prairie fires and swarms of grasshoppers destroyed crops.
Why did the army want people to kill buffalo?
American military commanders ordered troops to kill buffalo to deny Native Americans an important source of food.
what were 2 main railroads at the time?
Central Pacific and Union Pacific
what do Closed shops mean?
Companies could only hire union members
What effect did industrialization have on the middle class?
It helped expand the middle class and better pay
What invention played a key role in winning the “Range wars”?
Barbed wire
What is the Dawes Act?
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
Who was Grenville dodge?
chief engineer of the Union Pacific
Who is Samuel Gompers?
The first president of the AFL a position he held until 1924
What happened to people who failed the health test the doctors gave?
They where shipped back to Europe