Test 1 History Flashcards
Sioux
Indian tribe that’s located in the Dakota region, and is divided into the Asinnibone, Mandan, and Dakota Sioux tribes.
How was the problem of the “Plain Indians” resolved?
- Army was sent to fight the Indians. The U.S. army preferred to use the cavalry.
- Colt Revolver & repeating rifle was invented.
- Established Indian Reservations
- Bounty on Buffalo
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Diseases
Indian Reservations
Indians would have to live there only if they left would they be killed
Colt Revolever
Invented by Samuel Colt
Bounty on Buffalo
Buffalo had a bounty on them, with a $2 bounty per tail and the body left to rot.
Diseases
The Indians began to get white man’s diseases. These were deadly since many of the Indians didn’t have any immunity to the diseases.
Crazy Horse
Sioux war chief, and was the co-leader of the Indians at the battle of little big horn
Sitting Bull
Sioux medicine man, and was the co-leader of the Indians at the battle of Little Big Horn.
Little Big Horn
Largest battle between the Indians and the U.S. Army taken place in Montana. U.S. army was led by Gen. George Armstrong Custer leading the U.S. Cavalry. The battle was between 4,000 warriors and 264 cavalry me from the U.S. U.S. tried to run away, but they died on the run back.
Settlement of the West
1865-1900
- Homestead act of 1862
- Land Grants to Railroads
- Land Rushes
Homestead act of 1862
free farms of 160 acres to anyone who would move out west. Most of these people were civil war vets., estern farmers whose farms had worn out, and new immigrants from Europe.
Land Rushes
They would settle land by setting up acres and numbering them, then people would have to run in and get the little flag with the number they would get the land. much like black friday
Environemental problems in the Great Plain
- Lack of wood
- Lack of Water
- toughness of the sod
lack of wood
Great plains hardly have any trees. Houses had to be built out of sod bricks. There was also a fencing problem, until barbed wire was invented to fix this problem.
Lack of Water
water for family, livestock, and irrigation was needed, but there wasn’t any water, and it hardly rained. To fix this they had to create wells, but the water was really deep down. Thus they had to invent the water mill to pump up water, using the same method as oil pumping.
Toughness of the Sod
The sod in the great plains was extremly hard, as the soil had a great network of grass roots. This created a tough sod and it had to be fixed by creating a steel tipped plow. this was created by John Deere who took up a role of producing many farming tools.
Cattle Drives in the West
- Sedalia Trail
- Chisholm Trail
- Western Trail
- Goodnight Loving Trail
Sedalia Trail
ran from San Antonio to Kansas City
Chisholm Trail
Ran from Brownsville to Wichita, Kansas
Western Trail
Ran from S. Texas to Dodge City, Kansas
Goodnight Loving Trail
Ran from W. Texas to Denver
End of Cattle drives
- Cattle was raised in Kansas and Nebraska
- longhorn cattle was inferior to other beef products–Hereford & Angus cattle was better for beef
- West began to be fenced
- Southern Pacific Railroad built in 1886
“Buffalo Bill” Cody
He was a buffalo hunter, an Indian scalper, and a circus performer–in the Buffalo Bill wild west show.
Wyatt Earp
U.S. Marshal for dodge city Kansas and Tumbstone, Arizona. He was a very harsh Marshal.
“Wild Bill” Hickbook
most famous gun figher in the west killed in deadwood, South Dakota while playing.
gold discoveries
Sutter’s Mill California in 1849
Pikes Peak, Colorado, gives rise to Denver in 1859
Comstok load in nevada in 1859
Blakhills, South Dakota(deadwood) homesteak mine.
Results of the gold Disocoveries
Led to rise of the U.S. Geological Survey
Rapid Expansion of the U.S. economy minerals provided material needed for industrial expansion
Frederick Jackson Turner
“Turner’s Thesis” states “American character was created by the frontier.
American Character according to the Frederick Jackson Turner
- Restless–most people move at least 7 times
- versatile–american’s need to know a lot of things
- Don’t respect Tradition–don’t care about past, only present and future
- No Class system–base judgement of a person on what he/she can do
- Lawless society–Don’t obey laws very well
Urban and Industrial Growth
1870: rural pop. 40 M.– Urban Pop. 10 M.
1900: rural pop. 76 M.– Urban Pop. 30 M.
American Cities
1850: 1900: N.Y.C.--696K 3.4M Chicago--29K 1.7M Philadelphia--121K 1.3M St. Louis--77K 575K Boston--136K 560K
Causes of urban growth
- The Civil War spurred in Industrial growth
- cyrus McCromick’s agricultural harvester repleaces manual labor aross the U.S.
- Rapid Immigration, taking in anyone who wants to come creating cheap labor force
- Discovey of mineral in americ’s western mountains will prvide the raw materils for the industries
Steel
Henry Bessemer created machine Bessemere converter or “Blast Furnace” named today
steel needed Coal, Iron Ore, and LImestone
Messabi Range was the main source of irion
Coal was found in Penn. and west Virginia
Pittsburg becomes first steel center. Soon it was followed by Cleveland, Detroit, and chicago, and Gary Indiana remains as the main steel center for many decades.
Andrew Carnegie
Scotish immirant created a near monopoly owner of the steel industry and became the first great millionary and great CEO. Then sold all his holding to create the U.S. Steel Corp. His most famous quote was “Not a sin to be rich, but it is a sign to die rich,” and he gave money to create 3K public libraries
Railroad Industry
Track milage quadripled from 1865-1900, and Chicago becamoe the railroad center.
Train Improvements
Train Speed increased from 40m/hr to 100m/hr
- switch from burning wood to coal
- powerful light given off by the light bulb created by edison
- Bogeys for the wheel
- Iron rails to steel rails
- Wodden tressels and bridges to steel tressels and bridges
- George Westinhouse invented air breaks.
- Double traking of the american railroads
Cornelious Vanderbilt
Built many railroads then sold them to a rail company. “Builtmore” mansion, the largest in America, was owned by him.
George Westinhouse
Invented the air breaks
Air Breaks
Invented by George Westinhouse. The air breaks would be activited by the driver of the train, and then it will stop the last car first and work itself in a relay method to the first car. This made the stopping much faster and easier.
Shipping Industry
shift from wooden ship to steel ship
steel ship has no length limit
spurred world trade
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Elisha Otis
Invented the Elevator
Petroleum Industry
First mine in Titusville, Pennsylvania in 1859 by Edwin Drake
Nylon was first synthetic fiber from oil, and it was named by N.Y.C. and London where it was invented at the same time.
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Co. was founded and owned by him. He owned most of the oil fields, shipping, and refineries of the United States, having a near monopoly of the industry. He was later forced to break up the co. and keep only 1/8 and he kept what is today Exxon
Electric Power
Micheal Farraday English inventor discovered electricity.
Telephone Industry
Alexander Graham Bell– Copper wired can carry human voice invented in 1876
ATT founded in 1885–gave huge spurr to the copper industry and logging industry
Auto Industry
A steam engine and an electric car were all probable option, but they all failed. Only the internal combustion engine worked and created by four major co. Ransome olds–Oldsmobile, Henry Ford–Ford, Carl Benz–Mercedes Benz. The wheels at first were made out of wood, but then Charles Goodyear invented the pneumatic tire.
“Big 3”
Ford, GM, Chrysler all located in Detroit
Ford’s “Better Idea”
Ford Doubled the salary of workers creating a ripple effect and the rest of the industries had to raise their salary, increasing the amount an average family could afford.
Airplane Industry
Wilburt & Orville Wright create plane in 1903 and the first airforce is obtained by 1914. First plane flown in Kitty Hawk, N.C. where the Wright brothers pushed plane onto Kill Devil Hill. Wilburt is the first man to fly.
Radio Industry
invented by Gugllelmo Marconi
BBC–MARCONI
British Boradcast Corp. Led to the ABC–American Broadcast Corp., NBC–National Broadcast Corp., and CBS–Columbia Broadcast System.
Motion Picture Industry
Thomas Alva Edison invented the motion pic. camera and projector for silent movies.
first movie was in 1903–The great train robbery, and then in 1914 the birth of a nation was the first modern drama lenght movie
movie theathers were named nickleodiun, after they charged a nickle to enter the cinema. Hollywood was the center of the movie industry since they needed bright sunlight, wider veriety of scenery in area