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The arrival of the railroad and, with it, more permanent and numerous white settlement, spelled growing conflict between whites and natives. The troubles would erupt into an all-out war
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The 19th-century belief that the expansion of the US throughout the American continents was both justified and inevitable. and settlement of the west.
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Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25, 1835, in Dunfermline, Scotland. After moving to the United States, he worked a series of railroad jobs.
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John D. Rockefeller was born July 8, 1839, in Richford, New York. He built his first oil refinery near Cleveland and in 1870 incorporated the Standard Oil Company
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An organization of wage earners or salaried employees for mutual aid and protection and for dealing collectively with employers
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The late 19th century saw the advent of new communication technologies, including the phonograph, the telephone, and radio; the rise of mass-circulation newspapers and magazines; the growth of commercialized entertainment, as well as new sports, including basketball, bicycling, and football, and appearance of new transportation technologies, such as the automobile, electric trains and trolleys.
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The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel from molten pig iron prior to the open hearth furnace
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Mass production of Bessemer Steel
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1855–1926, U.S. labor leader: Socialist candidate for president 1900 - 1920.
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was the governor of New York before becoming U.S. vice president. At age 42, Teddy Roosevelt became the youngest man to assume the U.S. president 1919
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Urbanization brought new technologies, cultural benefits, diseases, poor housing, and bad working conditions
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Farmland boundaries made in 1860 to show ownership of land and keep livestock on the farmland.
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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.
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Tweed was a New York City politician who led a group of corrupt politicians who gained power in the Democratic Party in 1863, when Tweed was elected “Grand Sachem” of Tammany Hall.
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Construction of railroads and manufacturers.
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Federal Indian Policy refers the relationship between the United States Government and the Indian Tribes that exist within its borders.
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Discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits or encouraging reproduction
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During the Gilded Age, approximately 10 million new immigrants came to America for better job opportunities, freedom, and prosperity.
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Political corruption is the use of power by government officials for illegitimate private gain.
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a famous novelist from New York City 1878
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Founder and inventor of the automobile Henry Ford built the automobile to help with transportation of daily lives and transportation of goods and supplies.
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A square in Chicago scene of a riot (Haymarket Riot) in 1886 between police and labor unionists.
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A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing 1887
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A tribe of 320 people lead by Chief Big Foot was surrounded and attacked by U.S Troops on December 29, 1890
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The Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was a key piece of Progressive Era legislation, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt on the same day as the Federal Meat Inspection Act. Enforcement of the Pure Food and Drug Act was assigned to the Bureau of Chemistry in the U.S.
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is a term for the influence the United States has on the culture of other countries, such as their popular culture,, cuisine, technology, business practices, or political techniques. The term has been used since at least 1907
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Is the acquisition of additional business activities that are at the same level of the value chain in similar or different industries.
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a group that controls the activities of a political party 1922
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The policy of protecting the interests on native inhabitants against those of immigrants
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The national ethos of United States that has set of ideals in freedom which include opportunity, prosperity, and success.
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Is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions
