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| He allowed the Paiute Native Americans to return to their homeland |
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| A leader of the Sioux during the Battle of Little Big Horn |
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| General who led the U.S. Calvary in the Battle of Little Big Horn |
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| Native American responsible for starting the Ghost Dance |
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| He negotiated the purchase of Alaska from Russia |
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| Paiute Native American who protested the treatment of her people |
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| Apache leader who led raids in the Southwest, but finally surrendered after five years |
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| Nez Perce Chief who, while attempting to lead his tribe to Canada, but was captured 40 miles from his goal |
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| Relocating Native Americans from their lands to specific places designated by the government |
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| The term for Native Americans adjusting to "white culture" through the Reservation System |
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| These were set up for Native American children to help the assimilation process |
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| Term used for the forced march of the Navaho to the Bosque Redondo Reservation |
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| African Americans who fled the south to Kansas after the Civil War |
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| It was here that farmers developed dry farming techniques due to the lack of water |
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| Many settlers on the Plains built their homes out of this, which kept them fireproof but not waterproof |
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| Large company farms which were operated like factories, they often collapsed during bad times |
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| Term used for the cattle drive from Texas to the railheads in Kansas and Missouri |
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| Term for towns where the railroads ended and the cattle were brought for transport East |
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| One of the few government organizations that attempted to assist native Americans by helping them keep their lands |
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| "Native American Dawes Act", it broke up reservations by giving individual Native Americans 160 acres of land |
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| Alloted any settler 160 acres of land if they attempted to cultivate it for five years |
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| Native Americans could reserve these through the Reservation System |
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| The Morrill Act gave 17 million acres to states on the condition they would build these |
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| This was the motivation for most people who chose to leave everything behind and go west |
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| This government agency tried to help people migrating west to adjust to farming conditions on the Plains |
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| Nickname given to barbed wire, which was a major reason for the end of the open range |
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| Philosophy/economic system wherein the government, rather than private individuals, own the means of production as well as property |
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| This allowed for a large increase in the amount of steel that could be produced |
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| Samuel Morse's invention for communicating by sending an electric signal over wires |
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| People like Andrew Carnegie, who got rich in the steel industry |
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| A business which sells stocks as a part of ownership, pays dividends if it makes a profit, and allows stockholders to vote |
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| Name given to the machines that eventually became the automobile |
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| trying to create a monopoly by buying other companies that produce the same product |
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| Term used for the major railway lines that when across the Plains |
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| Transcontinental Raliroad |
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This cut the travel time from the East to the West
Coast from weeks to days |
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| Theory professed by people like Carnegie, explaining their enormous wealth by claiming themselves the "fitness" of the capitalist system |
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| This needed to be acquired from the government to protect an inventors' rights to their invention |
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| Although best known in the electric industry, his invention of the compressed air-brake increased railroad safety |
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| In order for this invention to be practical, a system of dots and dashes were created into what became known as Morse Code |
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| With the phrase, "Watson come here, I need you", he realized his new invention, the telephone, could work |
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| His "invention factory" at Menlo Park NJ produced over a thousand inventions, mostly in the field of electronics |
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| In this type of monopoly, a group of companies turn control over their stock to a common board of directors |
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| The major reason for creating one of these is to limit, if not eliminate, any competition |
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| With his sale of his steel business to J.P.Morgan, he became the wealthiest man in the world |
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| John D. Rockefeller controlled the entire industry by developing this company |
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| Under his leadership, membership in theKnights of Labor increased rapidly |
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| As stereotypic as it sounds, this invention opened up many job opportunities for women |
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| best known as the "father of Communism" |
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| Using the idea of "social darwinism", Carnegie preached this notion that the wealth needed to provide "vehicles of individual grown" |
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| Although not very strong, this law was the first attempt by the government to outlaw monopolies |
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| One of the earliest labor unions in the United States |
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| She became a leading advocate for the rights of the working class in America |
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| This was a period of intense religious revival in the U.S., with numerous sects and cults such as Oneida, being created |
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| Although it began as a peaceful protest, this ended very tragically, and hurt the movement for organizing labor |
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| The utopian belief that there is no need for organized government. Many of its believers tried to destroy established governments. |
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| American Federation of Labor |
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| Headed by Samuel Gompers, its success was in that it was a union of skilled workers that concentrated on "Bread and Butter" unionism |
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