unit five test Flashcards
represented the end of Indian suppression in westward expansion
wounded knee massacre
disaster for army, sealed fate for the indians. death of custer + soldiers = hardened national mood. greatest native american victory of plains wars.
battle of little bighorn
government ordered Indians to attend a large assembly on the reservation. each indian exited their teepee and what an arrow. indian then retreated to the teepee and came out wearing “civilized” clothing, symbolizing the crossing ‘savage’ to ‘civilized’
“last arrow” pageants
illustrated relationship between americans and nation’s economy, rise of business, emergence of a national and global economy, and the changing nature of work fundamentally altered the way americans earned a living. impacts of industrialization led to experiments.
the great railroad strike
emerged in Germany and the U.S. during 1870’s. Economic transformation shared common features, a growing population, the development of new inventions, railroad expansion, etc.
second industrial revolution
Mass marketing of goods, permitted by technological innovations and revolution in transportation. Ex. Macy’s turned shopping into an adventure, not just a convinience.
department stores
retail stores that are more specialized
chain stores
established by Aaron Montgomery 1872 amazon through catalogs
mail order business
controlling all steps to producing you products
vertical integration
own all businesses, control prices, profits buy all smaller
horizontal integration
let things take their own course, no inter-companies. No government control
lazziez - faire
wages so low people couldn’t afford to leave
wage slavery
His “Menlo Park”marked the transition from individual experimenters to systematic research and development and serial inventions. His most famous and important invention was the incandescent light bulb. This was made commercially viable through the alternating current of George Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla
thomas edison
an independent inventor famous for an induction coil, which is a transmitter for alternating current.
George Westinghouse: developed the first alternating current system to allow transmission of electricity over longer distances. (1886)
william stanley
a famous Robber Baron that exploited the weaknesses of competitors in the wake of financial panics.
jay gould
modeled industrial concentration and vertical integration in the steel industry.
andrew carnegie
a Croatian immigrant that discovered a way to convert alternating current into power that could drive machines together. Worked with Charles Brush to enable factories to use electrical powers.
nikola tesla
built a virtual monopoly in oil by winning price wars through low wages and railroad rebates.
john d. rockefeller
republican (1861-1865)
abraham lincoln
national union (1865-1869)
andrew johnson
republican (1877-1881)
rutherford b. hayes
republican (1869-1877)
ulysses s. grant