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Textile industry
Textiles are fabrics that are knitted or woven from yarn. The textile industry is the industry responsible for converting raw material into a finished product, and it includes textile developing, producing, manufacturing, and distributing -
Comstock Lode
Comstock Lode, a rich deposit of the silver in Nevada, U.S., named for Henry Comstock, part-owner of the property on which it was discovered in June 1859 -
Crop-lien system
The crop-lien system was a credit system that became widely used by cotton farmers in the United States in the South. Sharecroppers and tenant farmers, who did not own the land worked and obtained supplies/ food on credit from local merchants. -
Open Range
In the Western United States and Canada, open range is rangeland where cattle roam freely regardless of land ownership. Those wanting to keep animals off their property must erect a fence to keep animals out; this applies to public roads as well -
sand creek massacre
On November 29, 1864, peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians are massacred by a band of Colonel John Chivington's Colorado volunteers at Sand Creek, Colorado. The causes of the Sand Creek massacre were rooted in the long conflict for control of the Great Plains of eastern Colorado. -
Redeemers
Redeemers were the southern wing of the Bourbon Democrats. A pro-business faction in the Democratic Party who pursued a policy of Redemption. They were seeking to oust the Radical Republican coalition of freedmen, "carpetbaggers", and "scalawags". -
Sharecroppers
Sharecropping is a form of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on the land. Tenant farmer who gives a part of each crop as rent. -
Share tennants
Tenant farmers will own part of the land in return for a share of the crop. Tenant farming is when the farm in other people's lands. -
Ghost Dance Movement
The practice of the Ghost Dance movement was believed to have contributed to Lakota's resistance to assimilation under the Dawes Act. -
Great Sioux War 16
The Great Sioux War of 1876, also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred in 1876 and 1877. The cause of the war was because the U.S. government wanted to obtain ownership of the Black Hills -
Exodusters
Exodusters was a name given to African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River to Kansas in the late nineteenth century It was the first general migration of black people following the Civil War. -
Dawes Severalty Act
U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man's image. -
American Tocacco Company
The Duke brothers started their tobacco company in 1890. The tobacco company was the first giant holding company in America -
Mississippi Plan
It was devised by the Democratic Party in that state to overthrow the Republican Party in Mississippi. Democrats wanted to regain political control of the legislature and governor's office. -
Separate but equal
Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in United States constitutional law, according to which racial segregation did not necessarily violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all people. -
boomtown
A community that undergoes sudden and rapid population and economic growth or that are started from scratch. -
Atlanta Compromise
The Atlanta compromise was an agreement struck in 1895 between Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Institute, other African-American leaders, and Southern white leaders. It was first supported and later opposed by W. E. B. Du Bois and other African-American leaders. -
Indian wars
The American Indian Wars is the collective name for the various armed conflicts that were fought by European governments and colonists, and later by the governments and settlers, against various American Indian and First Nation tribes.
