INTRO TO GILDED AGE & PROGRESSIVE ERA Manifest Destiny to Inventors

MANIFEST DESTINY - It was the widely held belief in the United States that American settlers were destined by God to expand throughout the continent from the East coast to the West coast

HOMESTEAD ACT 1862 People had to agree to work and live on the land for 5 years This new law helped encourage settlers to move west.

TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD It created a nation-wide transportation network of railroad that united the country. This network replaced the wagon trains of previous decades and allowed for the transportation of larger quantities of goods over longer distances.

EXODUSTERS To escape the Ku Klux Klan and the Jim Crow laws which continued to make them second-class citizens after Reconstruction as many as forty thousand blacks known as Exodusters left the south to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado.

CHISHOLM TRAIL The ERA of the long drive began in 1867 The trail went from San Antonio Tx to Abilene Kansas The cattle were put on rail cars and shipped to cities like Chicago

DAWES ACT 1887 law passes to try and assimilate Indians into white society A tribe could no longer own reservation land as a group

Interstate Commerce Act 1887 A United States federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry, particularly its monopolistic practices. The Act required that railroad rates be "reasonable and just," but did not empower the government to fix specific rates. It also required that railroads publicize shipping rates and prohibited short haul or long haul fare discrimination, a form of price discrimination against smaller markets, particularly farmers.

THOMAS EDISON He was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, and the practical electric light bulb which extended work days. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park"

NIKOLA TESLA A Serbian American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical and engineer best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC)electricity supply system.