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settlement of the west
In the late 1800s, white Americans expanded their settlements in the western part of the country. They claimed land traditionally used by native Indians. The Indians were hunters. And they struggled to keep control of their hunting lands. Both the settlers and the Indians were guilty of violence. -
Bessemer Process
A method for making steel by blasting compressed air through molten iron to burn out excess carbon and impurities. -
homestead act
An act passed by Congress in 1862 promising ownership of a 160-acre tract of public land to a citizen or head of a family who had resided on and cultivated the land for five years after the initial claim. -
Assimilation
the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family. Manly happened to african american children forced to act like angolo culture -
New Inventions
when new inventions were made like the auto moblie in the guilded age -
barbed wire
fenced with sharp wires on it, ment to keep people from tresspassing -
political machines
a group that controls the activites of a political party -
Urbanization and industriazation in the guilded age
the Gilded Age saw rapid industrialization, urbanization, the construction of great transcontinental railroads, innovations in science and technology, and the rise of big business. Afterward, the first years of the new century that followed were dominated by progressivism, a forward-looking political movement that attempted to redress some of the ills that had arisen during the Gilded Age -
Upton Sinclair and the factory system
She 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 -
growth of railroads
time during the late 1800s were the railroads were expanded in the western front for faster travel and, the travel of goods. -
the American Dream
saying in the kate 1800s meaning that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement -
Haymarket Riot
a labor protest rally near Chicago’s Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing. -
the dawes act
An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations -
Federal indian policy
Natives ceased to threaten the Republic military, and the process of educating and Christianizing reservation residents was well begun. No longer, wrote one Indian policy reformer, would Native Americans be driven from their reservations "again and again - tossed westward, ever westward, like the driftwood and wreckage before the incoming tide -
Americanization & Nativism
there was forced assimilation during this time to the Native Americans. Many died from angolos forcing them to change their ways. Natives were forced to Americanize towards there ways asa they expanded west -
political corruption
corruption was bad, people were taking bribes and letting bad machine production continue. Presidency was at a low and the congress power eas way to high -
battle of wounded knee
Wounded Knee, located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux. -
laborer unions
were workers went on strike to stop unionization..often led to conflicts and violence -
social darwisim
The term social Darwinist is applied loosely to anyone who interprets human society primarily in terms of biology, struggle, competition. -
Eugenics
the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics -
immigration
In the late 1800s, people in many parts of the world decided to leave their homes and immigrate to the United States. Fleeing crop failure, land and job shortages, rising taxes, and famine, many came to the U. S. because it was perceived as the land of economic opportunity -
manifest destiny
Expanding the boundaries of the United States was in many ways a cultural war as well. The desire of southerners to find more lands suitable for cotton cultivation would eventually spread slavery to these regions. North of the Mason-Dixon line, many citizens were deeply concerned about adding any more slave states. Manifest destiny touched on issues of religion, money, race, patriotism, and morality -
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
Roosevelt, Jr. 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 -
Assmebly line
first factory where workers were working on cars step by step going down a assemnly line -
invention of automobile
Henry forf invented the worlds first car or the automoblie, was very expensive for people to buy. -
Andrew Carnegie
Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. -
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller was an American industrialist and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust
