How the west was won

  • The factory system

    a method of manufacturing
  • The invention of the automobile

    A vehicle invented to travel
  • Federal Indian Policy

    The act established that no sales of indian lands were to be made any people authorized by the United States.
  • The American Dream

    Americans wwould take away indian children from their families and educate them to be more like americans and make their appearances look more american.
  • urbanizarion

    Lands got bigger and better.
  • assimilation

    indian culture and language spoke for them.
  • Nativism

    Anti-foreign settlement
  • Boss tweed

    a democratic in new york in the 19th century.
  • Andrew caregie

    scottish-american industrialist who led the enormous of the American steel industry in the late 19th century
  • John D. Rockefeller

    was an american industrialist and philanthropist, he was the founder of the Strandard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the great U.S business trust.
  • Manifest Destiny

    god had alloted the land to angolos and it was their duty and destiny to settle the land and tame it.
  • Growth Of Railroads

    The united states was becoming an urban nation and railroads supplied cities and towns with food. fuel, building materials, and access to markets.
  • Bessemer Process

    The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open health fumace.
  • Eugene V debs

    Was an american union leader, one of the founding members of the industrial workers of the world, and several times the canidate of the spcialist party of america for the president.
  • The homestead act of 1862

    A 10 dollar fee that people could register for land available to settle.
  • barbed wire

    steel fencing to secure the land.
  • Immigration

    to enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native.
  • the gilded age

    was an era of enormous growth, especially in the North and West. This attracted millions of emigres from Europe.
  • Verticall intogration

    the combination in one company or two or more stages of production normally operated by seperate comparies.
  • labor unions

    an organized associations of workers, often in a trade or prefession, formed to protect and further their rights and intersts.
  • Industrialization

    U.S witnessed a massive, unprecedented tide or immigration
  • Eugenics

    Is the attority in practice of improving the genetic quality of picking up population
  • Haymarket riot

    Violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in chicago; the international struggle for workers right
  • The daws act

    Broke up thr tribal system granting 160 acre plots for individuals.
  • Social darwinism

    In the application of darwinism, the concept of survival of the fittest, to everyday social circumstances.
  • Political Corruption

    it is a use of power by government officials for illetinate private gain, an illegal act by official office holder constance to political corruption.
  • Battle of the wounded knee

    Americans killed over 600 native americans.
  • Trusts and anti-trusts

    opposing or intended to regulate business monopolies, such as trusts or cartels, especially in the interest of promoting competition
  • Upton sinclair

    was an American author who wrote close to one hundred books in many genres.
  • 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.
  • Teddy Roosevelt

    was the 26th President of the United States. He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement
  • Assembly line

    is a manufacturing process in which parts are added to a product in a sequential manner to create a finished product much faster than with handcrafting type methods.
  • Horizonal inegreation

    a strategy where a company creates or acquires production units for outputs which are alike.