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Cattle Drives
Cattle drives moved large herds of livestock to market, to shipping points, or to find fresh pasturage. The practice was introduced to North America early during European colonization. -
Purchase of Alaska
The purchase of Alaska in 1867 marked the end of Russian efforts to expand trade and settlements to the Pacific coast of North America, and became an important step in the United States rise as a great power in the Asia-Pacific region. -
Barbed Wire
Barbed wire was invented by Joseph F. Glidden. Barbed wire was the first wire technology capable of restraining cattle. Wire fences were cheaper to erect than their predecessors. -
2nd Industrial Revolution 1870-1914
The Second Industrial Revolution was a period when advances in steel production, electricity and petroleum caused a series of innovations that changed society. With the production of cost effective steel, railroads were expanded and more industrial machines were built. -
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinists believe in “survival of the fittest”—the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better. Social Darwinism has been used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half. They believed that government should not interfere in the “survival of the fittest” by helping the poor, and promoted the idea that some races are biologically superior to others. -
WCTU
The stated purpose of the WCTU was to create a "sober and pure world" by abstinence, purity, and evangelical Christianity. Annie Wittenmyer was its first president. -
Telephone
The telephone was made in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell. The invention of the telephone had a great impact towards society and broadened the idea of communication. The whole purpose surrounding the telephone was to make the process of communicating much more simply. -
Tuskegee Institute
Was the first institution of higher learning for African Americans. Founded by Booker T. Washington, which was under pressure due to the fact many viewed him as an accommodationist. -
Chinese Exclusion Act
This act suspended Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization. This affected America because it significantly decreased the amount of Chinese immigrants into the U.S. -
Haymarket Square
The Haymarket Square was organized by labor radicals to protest the killing and wounding of several workers by the Chicago police during a strike the day before at the McCormick Reaper Works.This became a symbol of international struggle for workers' rights. -
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act was a movement to reform Indian policy led to the US deciding to assimilate Indians to white culture rather than forcibly contain and kill Indians. Over ninety million acres of tribal land were stripped from Native American Indians and sold to non-natives. -
Interstate Commerce Act
The railroads became the first industry subject to Federal regulation. In 1887 Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act, making the railroads the first industry subject to Federal regulation. Congress passed the law largely in response to public demand that railroad operations be regulated. -
Hull House
The Hull House was a significant because it provided social and educational opportunities fro working class people. It was also created by Jane Adams. -
Gospel of Wealth
The Gospel of Wealth was a article written in 1889 by Andrew Carnegie. In which, it argued that wealthy men had a responsibility to use their wealth for the greater good of society. -
Wounded Knee
The US banned the Indian Sun Dance in 1884 to get Indians to give up their tribal religions and assimilate. Instead, the "Ghost Dance" spread in order to resist assimilation under the Dawes Severalty Act. Resulting in the US army killed around 200 Indians, including women and children, and practice of the Ghost Dance dropped hugely out of fear. -
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Sherman Antitrust Act was the first legislation enacted by the U.S. Congress to curb concentrations of power that interfere with trade and reduce economic competition. It was named for U.S. Sen. John Sherman of Ohio, who was an expert on the regulation of commerce. -
NAWSA
The National American Women Suffrage Association was an organization to advocate in favor of women's suffrage. One of the founders are Susan B. Anthony. -
Omaha Platform
This platform suggested a federal loan system in which farmers could get the money they needed. It also voiced the elimination for private banks -
Panic of 1893
The Panic of 1893 was a serious economic depression in the United States that began in that year. Similar to the Panic of 1873, this panic was marked by the collapse of railroad overbuilding and shaky railroad financing which set off a series of bank failures. -
Plessy vs. Ferguson
This case essentially established the constitutionality of racial segregation. As a controlling legal precedent, it prevented constitutional challenges to racial segregation for more than half a century until it was finally overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brownv.
