Chapter 5 & 6 Test Flashcards
What were your ambushed Captain William J Fetterman?
Crazy horse
What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie
The Indians agreed to live on the reservation along the Missouri River
What law was passed to make the Indians live on the reservations along the Missouri River
Treaty of Fort Laramie
What is assimilation
A plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life to become part of the white culture
What is the Dawes act
They broke up the reservations and get some of the reservation land to the individual and Native Americans
What was the battle of wounded knee
It brought the Indian wars and the entire area to a bitter end
What happened to the Native Americans when the Buffalo disappeared
A force them into smaller and less desirable reservations, where is entitled florist on the lens.
What are Longhorns
Mexican animals that were sturdy short tempered breeds accustomed to the dry grasslands of southern Spain
After what war did the cities start growing rapidly
Civil War
What was the Homestead act
It offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen or intended citizen who is head of the household
Exodusters
African-Americans who moved from the post reconstruction south to Kansas
Who invented the steel plow; what did it do?
John Deere; it could slice through heavy soil
Who invented the reaping machine
Cyrus McCormick
What was the Morrill act
It gave federal lands to the states to help finance agricultural colleges
What was the Hatch act
Establish agricultural experiment stations to inform farmers of new developments
Why were the farmers in debt
Machinery was expensive, The farmers plains experienced drought
What was a bonanza farm
Enormous single crop spreads of 15,000 to 50,000 acres
What was the Bland Allison act
It required the government to buy and coin at least $2 million-$4 million worth of silver each month
What did Oliver Hudson Kelly do
He started the patrons of husbandry
What was the patrons of husbandry
It was an organization for farmers that became popular known as the Grange
What was the Grange
And organization for farmers
What was the farmers alliances
Another green organization that included many others who sympathized with farmers
It was populism
The movement of the people
What were some things at the populists proposed
An increase in money supply, I graduated income tax, and a federal loan program
What is bimetallism
Monetary system in which the government would give his hands either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks
What was the gold standard
Backing dollar solely with gold
What did William Jennings Bryan edit
The Omaha world Herald
When did populism collapse
With McKinley’s election
Well is there an immense industrial boom after the Civil War
A wealth of natural resources, government support for business, and a growing urban population of provided both cheap labor and markets for new products
What did Edwin L Drake do
He successfully use a steam engine to drill for oil
What was the Bessemer process
This technique involves injecting Aaron to the mall and I are to move the carbon other impurities
Who invented the lightbulb
Thomas Edison
What did Christopher Shoals invent
The typewriter
What did Alexander Graham Bell invented
The telephone
What did industrialization do
It freed some factory workers from backbreaking labor and help improve workers standard of living
What was the transcontinental railroad
When the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific Railroad some at promontory Utah and made one huge railroad
What was the larssez faire
Let do or allowed to do
What was munn vs Illinois
States had the right to regulate the railroads for the benefit of farmers
What is monopoly
When one corporation buys out another Corporation
George m pullman
He built a factory for manufacturing sleepers and other railroad cars on the Illinois prairie
Credit mobilier
Construction company which stockholders in the Union Pacific Railroad formed
Interstate commerce act
Reestablish the right of the federal government to supervise railroad activities/ established an ICC
Andrew Carnegie
Famous steel magnet in America
Vertical interrogation
Buying out suppliers
Horizontal interrogation
Companies producing similar products merge
Social Darwinism
Biological evolution
John D Rockefeller
Owner of standard oil Company
Sherman antitrust act
Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered free trade between states or with other countries
What are labor unions
Workers come together to make a strike
Socialism
Equal pay, government controls everything
What was the philosophy applied to the business world
Survival of the fittest
