1. Vocabulary
Assimilation – a smaller group being absorbed into a larger group. The smaller group takes on the way of life of the larger group
Dawes Act – passed in 1887 – intended to “Americanize” the Native Americans by giving Indian leaders land and encouraging them to farm
Battle of Wounded Knee – last of the battles between US and Indians. US massacred Indians
Homestead Act – passed in 1862 – gave 160 acres of land to settlers. If they showed possession for 5 years it would be theirs forever. Encouraged westward settlement
Exoduster–former slaves that got free land in Kansas

2. Vocabulary
Populist Party – a political party formed in the late 1800s by farmers. They were later joined by laborers. Populists wanted the people to have a bigger voice in the government.
Bimetallism – Backing money by gold and silver. Would cause inflation. Biggest demand of populist.
Bessemer Process – removing the impurities out of iron to make steel. Had a major impact on industries
Laissez-Faire – “hands-off” - no government regulations on businesses
Social Darwinism – survival of the fittest business – resulted in many monopolies
Monopoly- one business that controls all the economic activity in a market. – limits competition

3. What do you think?
1. Why was the destruction of the buffalo so detrimental to the Native American way of life?
2. Why did the settlers push to settle in the West?
3. What do you think the US government did to encourage settlement in the West?

4. Chapter 5 MANIFEST DESTINY
WESTWARD EXPANSION

5. What time period are we talking about?
1800s
Nineteenth Century

6. Who is moving? Exodusters Others Former Slaves that… Civil War Vets
Convicts
Railroad Workers
Unemployed

7. PULL FACTORS Why are they moving? Jobs in the West Federal Land Grants
Mining
Farming/Ranching
Open Range
Federal Land Grants
Homestead Act
Morrill Land Grant
PULL FACTORS

8. How are they moving? Covered Wagon Railroads
Pacific Railway Act (Lincoln)
Transcontinental Railroad
Union Pacific / Central Pacific

11. Settlers’ life Self-sufficient

20. How did movement affect the makeup of the United States?
Geography
Boom/Ghost Towns
Barbed Wire
Great Plains
Native Americans
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Massacre at Wounded Knee
Wovaka – Ghost Dance
Dawes Act / Assimilation

22. Carlisle School Of Learning

24. African Americans
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment

25. CLOSING THE FRONTIER
General Washburn
Oklahoma Land Rush

26. Populist Party People’s Party Populist

27. Populism Platform Bimetallism
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (add to outline)
William Jennings Bryan
The Wizard of Oz

28. Vocabulary
Transcontinental Railroad – completed in 1869 when it connected in Promontory, Utah. It linked our country east to west.
Interstate Commerce Act – passed in 1887 to create a commission to regulate the railroads
Sherman Anti-Trust Act - ;passed in 1890 to limit certain types of monopolies.
Arbitration – settling a dispute by using a third party
Labor Unions – organizations formed by workers to fight for better pay, hours and conditions – among other demands

30. INDUSTRIALIZATION

31. What is Industrialization?
What makes it possible?
Materials
People
Workers and Entrepreneurs
Where was the main US industrial region?

32. Key Players – Captains of Industry
Edwin Drake
Henry Bessemer
Andrew Carnegie
Horizontal
Vertical
John Rockefeller

33. Economic Philosophies
Laissez Faire
Capitalism
Socialism
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Reform Darwinism

34. Laissez-Faire To let do… . No government influence in economics
Means that there are no laws on businesses!!!
“Hands Off”

35. Capitalism Private Ownership of Business
Little government regulations on busiesses
YOU decide what you will do
What we have in the US

36. Socialism Total government control of economy No free enterprise
Usually associated with communism

37. Gospel of Wealth Andrew Carnegie
It is ok to make a lot of money as long as you give back to society

38. Social Darwinism What is “Darwinism”? How does this relate to society?
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST BUSINESS
The strong take over the weak

39. Reform Darwinism Darwinism – just different
Instead of competition you work together for success of all
Cooperation!!!

40. Tariffs
High
Low

41. Led to: Monopolies Trusts Robber Barons Corruption
Consolidation of Railroads
Trusts
Robber Barons
Corruption
The Credit Mobilier
Interstate Commerce Act created the…
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sherman Anti Trust Act
Panic of 1893
Stanford and the Big Four
Vanderbilt
James J. Hill
CAPTAINS OF INDUSTRY

43. How did industrialization affect society?
Population shift
Rural to Urban
Isolation and ideas
Inventions
Telephone
Light Bulb
Ice Machine
Standard Sizes
Leisure Time

44. Labor Unions Need for Unions Local Unions Working conditions Salaries
.27 – 14 hour day – child
$267 a year – woman
$498 a year – man
$23 million
Local Unions

45. Two types of Unions Trade Unions – Craft Unions Industrial Unions
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Industrial Unions
Industrial Workers of the World
Eugene V. Debs

46. National Labor Union
Knights of Labor
Arbitration

48. Strikes
Haymarket Affair
Effect
Pullman Strike

49. Women Organize Mary Harris Jones Garment Workers Union
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Results