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Fedral Indian Policy
Conciliation/appeasement
Relocation
Confinement -
Manifest Destiny
People thought it was their destiny to expand west -
Urbaniization and Industrialization in the Gilded Age
Led to economic change that had positive and negatuve effects on America -
Settlement Of The West
People moving into the west. -
Nativiasm
talking about how we hate foriegn people, but we were once one. -
Bessemer Process
method for making steel by blasting compressed air through molten iron to burn out excess carbon and impurities. -
immigration
Contributed to crowded and dangerous living and working conditions in the industrail city -
The Homestead Act
for a $10 fee an individual could register for land available to settle -
New Inventions
When new ideas were turned into things -
Barbed Wire
fenced with sharp wires on it, meant to keep people from tresspassing -
Upton Sinclair and the factory system
He was a journalist who wrote about the horrible things that happened in the factory system. Said things about how men fell into meat grinders and, they still sold the meat. Also talked about the horrible conditions in the factory -
Assimilation
when the indians where to go to the boarding schools and getting changed into a "White Person" -
Automoblie
it was a new invention for people to go from place to place -
Dawes Act
Broke up the Tribal system granting 160 acres plots to individuals -
Battle of Wounded Knee
Last battle of the American/indain war, at least 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 wounded (4 men, 47 women and children, some of whom died later); -
Growth of the Railroads
By the 1895 the railroad companies had at least 2373 miles worth of railroad tracks -
Pure Food and Drug Act
An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes. -
americanization
influences other countries to be like us -
Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt, Jr. was the 26th President of the United States. -
Assembly Line
first factory where workers were working on cars step by step going down a assemnly line -
American Dream
"life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement"
