Gilded Age Flashcards
Reservations
The US wanted to encourage citizens to move westward and marshaled natives into reservations as a way for people to feel more comfortable moving west.
Dawes Act
An attempt to assimilate and whiten native Americans.
Ghost Dance
Natives called spirits to bring back the buffalo that the army purposefully destroyed and eliminate all white people.
Wounded Knee
Natives were sent to a reservation and were slaughtered.
Little Bighorn
1876
A battle that natives won while soldiers attempted to move them to their reservations.
Vertical integration
Andrew Carnegie used this to dominate the steel industry.
Horizontal consolidation
Rockefeller’s tactic of putting small companies out of business and purchasing them out.
Importance of railroads
The only way for farmers to get their crops to the market. The roads took this to their advantage.
Grange
A group of farmers discontented with exploitation they received from the rail roads.
Interstate Commerce Commission
The regulating of rail roads.
Name 3 farmer organizations
1) Grange
2) Farmer Alliance
3) Populist Party
The most notorious city boss
William Boss Tweed
