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This provided for much of their basic needs and was central to Native Americans life on the plains

What is the buffalo?

Sitting bull refused to sign this; it lead to the “Battle of Wounded Knee”, and George Custer was sent to enforce it.

What is the Treaty of Ft. Laramie?

They heavily influenced the American cowboy in clothes, food, and speech

What is the Vaquero?

1)forced assimilation of Native Americans This Act: 1)forced assimilation of Native Americans 2)divided up tribal lands and gave it back to individuals 3)Removed children from homes and put them into boarding schools to “Americanize” them.

The Dawes Act

Grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States

The Great Plains

Passed in 1862 to encourage families to settle the West

The Homestead Act

Geographically adapted homes where settlers lived on the plains

A Soddy

What brought many immigrants to the U.S. in the late 1800s?

Pursue the American Dream

This Act allowed Federal land to be given to states to help finance agricultural colleges

The Morrill Act

These two inventions helped farmers tremendously on the prairie

The Steel plow and the mechanical reaper

New Political Movement of the people

Populism

Oliver Hudson Kelley started the Patrons of Husbandry that later became known as this-an outlet for farmers and their issues

The Granger Movement / Cooperative

Farmers were overextended; railroads expanded faster than markets; Gold supply was thin, stock prices fell; Businesses and banks had collapsed

The Panic of 1893?

This is an example of the changing relationship between federal government & private (Big) business?

Anti-Trust Acts

Delivered his “Cross of Gold” Speech - advocate for the farmers and laborers

William Jennings Bryan leader of the Populist Party

This man wrote ‘the Gospel of Wealth’?

Andrew Carnegie

They have certain recognizable characteristics They overlap other eras and time periods They are focused on a major social or economic event

Characteristics of historical eras

By 1910, they made up nearly 40 percent of the clerical work force

Women

The most dramatic invention next to the light bulb

The telephone -invented by Alexander Graham Bell

How did the automobile affect the standard of living in the U. S How did the automobile affect the standard of living in the U.S. in the early 20th century?

It increased mobility and created jobs.

The Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroads met here on May 10, 1869 - a golden spike marked the meeting

Promontory Point, Utah - the first transcontinental railroad

He developed a plan that divided the United States into four time zones to synchronize railroad times

Professor C.F. Dowd

Construction company set up by stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad to overcharge and reap huge profits

The Credit Mobilier

This was the reason for Civil Service reform during the Gilded Age?

Political corruption

This Act established the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities

The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

New business strategy that Carnegie developed to control as much of the steel industry process as he could

Vertical integration

Controlled the oil industry with his Standard Oil Company

John D. Rockefeller

This term was used by critics to describe industry giants

“Robber Barons”

Why do historians prefer primary sources instead of secondary sources?

Written by witnesses to the event.

-Polluted Cities Insufficient housing - Health issues

Immigrant issues especially in tenement housing

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This theory believed in the principles of natural selection and could justify why some people had power and others did not – created economic and social division

Social Darwinism