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

5. What is the buffalo?

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

7. What is the Treaty of Ft. Laramie?

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

9. What is the Vaquero?

10. 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.

11. The Dawes Act

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

13. The Great Plains

14. Passed in 1862 to encourage families to settle the West

15. The Homestead Act

16. Geographically adapted homes where settlers lived on the plains

17. A Soddy

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

19. Pursue the American Dream

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

21. The Morrill Act

22. These two inventions helped farmers tremendously on the prairie

23. The Steel plow and the mechanical reaper

24. New Political Movement of the people

25. Populism

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

27. The Granger Movement / Cooperative

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

29. The Panic of 1893?

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

31. Anti-Trust Acts

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

33. William Jennings Bryan leader of the Populist Party

34. This man wrote ‘the Gospel of Wealth’?

35. Andrew Carnegie

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

37. Characteristics of historical eras

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

39. Women

40. The most dramatic invention next to the light bulb

41. The telephone -invented by Alexander Graham Bell

42. 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?

43. It increased mobility and created jobs.

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

45. Promontory Point, Utah - the first transcontinental railroad

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

47. Professor C.F. Dowd

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

49. The Credit Mobilier

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

51. Political corruption

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

53. The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887

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

55. Vertical integration

56. Controlled the oil industry with his Standard Oil Company

57. John D. Rockefeller

58. This term was used by critics to describe industry giants

59. “Robber Barons”

60. Why do historians prefer primary sources instead of secondary sources?

61. Written by witnesses to the event.

62. -Polluted Cities
Insufficient housing
- Health issues

63. Immigrant issues especially in tenement housing

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65. 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

66. Social Darwinism