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A period in United States history after the Civil War characterized by urbanization, industrialization, and rapid economic and population growth.
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| Second Industrial Revolution |
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Part of the Gilded Age. More industrialization and urbanization, along with the introduction of more modern inventions such as electricity, oil, and steel, which helped to grow American industries.
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He invented the light bulb and innovated electricity distribution. This enabled factories to boost productions with longer shifts and more efficiency.
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He was an entrepreneur in the oil industry, eventually owning 90% of America's oil companies and industries.
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He was involved in the railroad industry, making sure that much of America was connected through his railroads, which they would depend on for transportation and trade.
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He was involved in the steel industry, which was vital to constructing modern cities and railroads.
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He dealt with investment banking, which was important to financing and helping businesses to grow.
#greenmeansgrow |
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The idea that social order was the product of natural selection, where the "fittest" were destined to succeed in life.
#fitforlife |
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He wrote novels that glorified the idea of getting rich and successful through hard work, honesty, and morality.
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Immigrants that arrived during the Gilded Age to American from Southern and Eastern Europe, as well as Asia. They were poor and typically unskilled and uneducated.
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A major economic activity in the West that involved moving millions of cattle from Texas to railheads in Arkansas, and finally to stockyards in Louisiana for shipment and market.
#cowboylife |
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A federal law signed in 1882 that prohibited Chinese immigration.
#nochineseallowed |
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A political group with an authoritative boss or small group that demands and commands support from civilians and businesses in exchange for rewards for their loyalty.
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He drew political cartoons that criticized Tammany Hall. His controversial works led him to being arrested and jailed.
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Used during the settlement of the frontier settlement, utilizing wood, stone, sod, and grass from the prairie for construction.
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Congressmen were bribed to let railroad construction companies overcharge taxpayers.
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In order to reform the spoils system, this required that jobs be given based on a civil service exams and their qualifications.
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Workers had to promise that they would not join a union if they were hired for a job.
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Wire with short, sharp spiked along it, commonly used to make fences or other obstructions. Brought an end to cattle driving.
#respectthespikes |
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| Great Railroad Strike of 1877 |
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The Panic of 1873 had forced railroad companies to cut worker wages. In response, railroad workers nationwide went on strike, affecting 2/3 of the nation's railroads. It became violent, destroying railroads, equipment, and severely crippling the economy.
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A name given to corrupt businessmen who took advantage of government policies and hurt the country as a result by swindling the poor.
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Established the sale of cheap land in the West: 160 acres for $10. This helped to encourage settlement in the West.
#land4sale |
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An animal important to the lifestyles of Native Americans. When Native Americans were forced onto reservations, their practices of hunting this animal was restricted.
#bigfluffyimportant |
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Helped to create agricultural and technical colleges to teach needed skills to those who moved West.
#themoreyouneedtoknow |
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Authorized the building of a transcontinental railroad
#gowestbutfaster |
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Small areas of land that Native Americans were forced to move to as Americans moved and settled West. These areas usually had little natural resources, and Native Americans were segregated from settlers. Conditions were poor and they often starved.
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A major Sioux leader that led people out of reservations to hunt buffalo.
#huntasweplease |
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A major Nez Perce leader that resisted being placed on a reservation in Idaho. He and his people fled and were chased by military forces. Eventually surrendering, his surrender and symbolized the failure of Native Americans to resist American control
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General George Custer forced Sitting Bull and his people back on their reservations when they went out to hunt buffalo. At Custer's Last Stand, every American soldier was killed and it was a significant victory for Native Americans. In response, the U.S. government increased its military efforts to crush resistance.
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A law that offered individual Native Americans 160 acre homesteads for farming. Its intention was to break up tribes and encourage Native Americans to assimilate into American culture. It ultimately failed because Native Americans refused to abandon their tribes or assimilate.
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An essay that evaluated the role of the Western Frontier in the United States. It called the frontier a "safety valve" for Americans that were not content in the East.
#whatiswest |
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A Native American defeat in South Dakota. Federal authorities banned the Ghost Dance movement on reservations. Reservations police killed Sitting Bull while trying to arrest him for leading the movement. Other Ghost Dancers fled, and up to 300 Native Americas were killed. it marked the last significant resistance of Native Americans.
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A book that criticized the history of broken treaties and violence against Native Americans.
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