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How The West Won
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Growth of Railroads
The arrival of the railroad and, with it, more permanent and numerous white settlement, spelled growing conflict between whites and natives. The troubles would erupt into an all-out war -
Manifest Destiny
The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. and settlement of the west. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. After moving to the United States, he worked a series of railroad jobs. -
John D. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York. He built his first oil refinery near Cleveland and in 1870 incorporated the Standard Oil Company -
Labor Unions
An organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers -
Inventions
The late 19th century saw the advent of new communication technologies, including the phonograph, the telephone, and radio; the rise of mass-circulation newspapers and magazines; the growth of commercialized entertainment, as well as new sports, including basketball, bicycling, and football, and appearance of new transportation technologies, such as the automobile, electric trains and trolleys. -
Bessemer Process
The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace -
Assembly Line
Mass production of Bessemer Steel -
Eugene V. Debs
1855–1926, U.S. labor leader: Socialist candidate for president 1900 - 1920. -
Teddy Roosevelt
was the governor of New York before becoming U.S. vice president. At age 42, Teddy Roosevelt became the youngest man to assume the U.S. president 1919 -
Urbanization
Urbanization brought new technologies, cultural benefits, diseases, poor housing, and bad working conditions -
Barbed Wire
Farmland boundaries made in 1860 to show ownership of land and keep livestock on the farmland. -
The Homestead Act
An act passed by Congress in 1862 promising ownership of a 160-acre tract of public land to a citizen or head of a family who had resided on and cultivated the land for five years after the initial claim. -
Boss Tweed
Tweed was a New York City politician who led a group of corrupt politicians who gained power in the Democratic Party in 1863, when Tweed was elected “Grand Sachem” of Tammany Hall. -
Industrialization
Construction of railroads and manufacturers. -
Federal Indian Policy
Federal Indian Policy refers the relationship between the United States Government and the Indian Tribes that exist within its borders. -
Eugenics
Discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits or encouraging reproduction -
Immigration
During the Gilded Age, approximately 10 million new immigrants came to America for better job opportunities, freedom, and prosperity. -
Political Corruption
Political corruption is the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain. -
Upton Sinclair
a famous novelist from New York City 1878 -
Automobile
Founder and inventor of the automobile Henry Ford built the automobile to help with transportation of daily lives and transportation of goods and supplies. -
Haymarket Riot
A square in Chicago scene of a riot (Haymarket Riot) in 1886 between police and labor unionists. -
The Dawes Act
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing 1887 -
Battle of Wounded Knee
A tribe of 320 people lead by Chief Big Foot was surrounded and attacked by U.S Troops on December 29, 1890 -
The Pure Food and Drug Act
The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on the same day as the Federal Meat Inspection Act. Enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Act was assigned to the Bureau of Chemistry in the U.S. -
Americanization
is a term for the influence the United States has on the culture of other countries, such as their popular culture,, cuisine, technology, business practices, or political techniques. The term has been used since at least 1907 -
Vertical and Horizontal Integration
Is the acquisition of additional business activities that are at the same level of the value chain in similar or different industries. -
Political Machine
a group that controls the activities of a political party 1922 -
Nativism
The policy of protecting the interests on native inhabitants against those of immigrants -
The American Dream
The national ethos of United States that has set of ideals in freedom which include opportunity, prosperity, and success. -
Social Darwinism
Is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions
