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| grasslands in west-central portion of the United States. |
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| United States closes trail; Sioux move to reservations. |
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| Battle of Little Big Horn |
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| a battle where Custer took 200 men against thousands of Native Americans. Custer suffered a terrible defeat. The rest of the men made up the Seventh Calvary. |
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| natives give up their way of life and join white culture. |
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| gives land to individual natives; sell remainder of land to settlers; money for farm implements for natives. To "Americanize" the Native Americans. |
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| the Seventh calvary killed 300 unarmed Native Americans |
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| a sturdy, short-tempered breed brought by Spain; able to survive on poor food sources and with minimal water. |
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| major cattle route from San Antonio to Kansas. |
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| a U.S. law enacted in 1862, that provided 160 acres in the west to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the household and would cultivate the land for five years. |
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| laws enacted in 1862 and 1890 to help create agricultural colleges by giving federal land to states. |
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| enormous farms on which a single crop is grown. |
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| the Patrons of Husbandry- a social and educational organization through which farmers attempted to combat the power of the railroads in the late 19th Century. |
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| group of farmers, or those in sympathy with farming issues, who sent lectures from town to town to educate people about agriculture and rural issues. |
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| a late 19th Century political movement demanding that people have a growing voice in government and seeking to advance the interests of farmers and laborers. |
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| the use of both silver and gold as a basis for a national monetary system. |
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| a monetary system in which the basic unit of currency is deferred in turns of an amount of gold. |
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| former Nebraska congressman, editor of the Omaha World-Herald, delivered an impassioned address to the assembled delegates. |
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| a cheap and efficient process for making steel, developed around 1850. |
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| a pioneer in the new industrial frontier and creater of the lightbulb. |
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| the co-inventer of the telephone along with Thomas Watson. |
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| Transcontinental Railroad |
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| a railroad line linking the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, completed in 1869. |
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| a construction company formed in 1864 by owners of the Union Pacific Railroad, who used it to sell of railroad profits for themselves. |
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| an inventor that created the Pullman sleeping car |
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| a 1877 case in which the Supreme Court up held states' regulation of railroads for the benefit of farmers and consumers. |
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| a law enacted in 1887 that established the federal governments's right to supervise railroad activities and created a five member Interstate Commerce Commision to do so. |
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| (a Scottish businessman) built Pittsburg Carnegie Steel Company |
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| a style of management control that are united through the hierachy with a common ownner. |
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| a type of ownership and control that is used by a business or corporation that seeks to sell a type of product in numerous markets. |
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| ideas based on a concept that competition among all individuals, groups, nations, or ideas drives social evolution in human societies |
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| revolutionized the petroleum industry and defined the structure of modern philanthropy. |
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| made to oppose the combination of entities that could potentially harm competition; such as monopolies. |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| the first federations of labor unions in the US; founded in Columbus, Ohio |
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| an American union leader, one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World |
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| Industrial Workers of the World |
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| an international union currently headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio |
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| the process of social and economic change where by human group is transformed. |
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