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How the West Was Won

  • Factory System

    Factory System

    The factory system was a method of manufacturing
  • Bessemer Process

    Bessemer Process

    a steel-making process.
  • Teddy Roosevelt

    Teddy Roosevelt

    26th President of the United States.
  • Growth Of Railroads

    Growth Of Railroads

    WHen the pacific railroad act was passed this let the construction of railroads started increasing.
  • Homestead Act

    Homestead Act

    For a $10 fee an individual could register for land available to settle.
  • Federal Indian Policy

    Federal Indian Policy

    the relationship between the United States Government and the Indian Tribes that exist within its borders.
  • The American Dream

    The American Dream

    is the dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone.
  • Social Darwinism

    Social Darwinism

    the survival of the fittest !!
  • Political Corruption

    Political Corruption

    the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain.
  • Barbed Wire

    Barbed Wire

    wire with clusters of short, sharp spikes set at intervals along it, used to make fences or in warfare as an obstruction, invented by Joseph Glidden.
  • Assimilation

    Assimilation

    European immigrants were not able to assimilate with the american society.
  • Political Machines

    Political Machines

    Organized group that controls a city's political party, give services to voters, businesses for political, financial support.
  • Boss Tweed

    Boss Tweed

    was an American politician most notable for being the "boss" of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party political machine that played a major role in the politics.
  • Immigration

    Immigration

    Immigrants would come for a better life and to follow the American Dream.
  • Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair

    was an American writer and reformer.
  • Nativism

    Nativism

    the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.
  • Haymarket Riot

    Haymarket Riot

    a bombing that took place at a labor demonstration.
  • Invention of Automobile

    Invention of Automobile

    A german inventor introduced the automobile in 1886.
  • Dawes Act of 1887

    Dawes Act of 1887

    Broke up the Tribal system granting 160 acre plots to individuals
  • Americanization

    Americanization

    assimilation into American culture
  • Manifest Destiny

    Manifest Destiny

    It was a belief that American settlers had to expand cross the continent.
  • Battle of Wounded Knee

    Battle of Wounded Knee

    It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars.
  • Anti Trusts

    Anti Trusts

    was the first important federal measure to limit the power of companies that controlled a high percentage of market share.
  • Trusts

    Trusts

    often targeted silver and gold mines in the West and other large companies whose employees faced hazardous conditions and low wages.
  • Urbanization

    Urbanization

    After the Civil War, America changed and industrialized on large scale, immigrants came and helped this becaue they wanted the "American Dream"
  • Eugenics

    Eugenics

    s the theory and practice of improving the genetic quality of the human population.
  • Industrialization

    Industrialization

    Gilded Age industrialization had its part in the Civil War, which started up the Congress and the northern states to build more railroads and a demand for goods.
  • Pure Food and Drug Act

    Pure Food and Drug Act

    was the first federal law prohibiting the interstate transportation and sale of adulterated food enacted by Congress.
  • Assembly Line

    Assembly Line

    a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled.
  • Labor Unions

    Labor Unions

    an organized association of workers.
  • Andrew Carnegie

    Andrew Carnegie

    as a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry.
  • Vertical Intergration

    Vertical Intergration

    a style of growth and management control.
  • Horizontal integration

    Horizontal integration

    a strategy where a company creates or acquires production units for outputs which are alike.
  • Eugene V. Debbs

    Eugene V. Debbs

    an American union leader, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World.
  • John D. Rockefeller

    John D. Rockefeller

    an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company.
  • Settlement of the West

    Settlement of the West

    By the 1870's western land was being divided and settled into, the cause of the expansion was the Homestead Act.

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