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18591850

Andrew Carnegie: he became a impressive worker for the continental rail road, he moved up the ranks until he became his own wealthy man.

Social darwinism: the theory of biological evolution it grew out of the book published in 59 from english naturalist.

Soddy: A house made of mud and such. It made great insulation but aloud no air flow or light. Making it a place for bugs and snakes

1850

Bessemer Process: developed independently by Henry Bessemer. A tichnique that involves injecting air into molten iron to remove impurities.

18551852

Civil service: govenrment admin, should be appointed to the best qualified and not by political views.

18641857

Buffalo Soldiers: name given to African Americans commissioned by congress after the civil war to patrol the midwest.

Sand Creek Massacre: one of the most tragic events in the US military when the us attacked and killed the Cheynne and killed over 150 women

Fredrick Law Olstmed: Spear headed the movement plan for urban parks, and helped draw up the greensward plan which is now timesquare.

1862

Homestead Act: offering 160 acres of free land to any citizen or intended citizen who was head of the house hold.

18621862

Exoduster: settlers, African Americans, who moved from the post-reconstruction south to kansas.

18681866

Sitting Bull: leader of Hunkpapa Sioux never signed a treaty and expected to keep hunting on their land.

Tammany Hall: powerful democratic political machine. That built a lot of money for their political view.

Long Horns: sturdy short tempered breeds. That ere accustomed to the draw grass lands of southern Spain.

1867

Oliver Kelley: started the patrons of husbandry which was an organization to help support farmers.

18681867

Gilded Age: refers to the era of the rapid economic and population growth post civil war. Every man was capable or already was wealthy.

18701869

John D. Rockefeller: established the standard oil company, and he took differ out looks on mergers that would make him a lot of money. By 1870 his company controlled 90% of the refining business.

Trust: turn their stock over to a group of trustees- people who ran the separate companies as one large corporation to get dividines. Trust are not legal mergers although Rockefeller used them to take over the oil industry.

Tweed Ring: Boss tweed was head of Tammany hall. He controlled the district attorney, the police, the courts, and most of the newspapers.

1869

Transcontinental railroad: A rail road line linking the Alantic coast and Pacific coast of the United States, completed in 1869

18701870

Long Drive: the overland transport of the animals. Often lasted about three months.

18731871

Colored Farmers Alliance: about 250,000 blacks belonged to this group. Some promoted non segregated farms.

Graft: the illegal use of political influence for personal gain, after a political machine got its candidate into office.

National Farmers Alliance: an organized movement of farmers that flourished in the 70’s.

1872

Southern Alliance: largest alliance out of the farmers alliance. Over 4 million members mostly white farmers.

18731873

Grange: original purpose was to provide a social outlet and an educational forum for isolated farm families.

18761875

Great Plains: the grassy lands extended through the west-central parts of the united states and Canada.

The Battle of Little Bighorn: Montana near the little bighorn battle between a large calvary and Indian tribes. The tribes were highly under estimated by George Custer who’s men were killed.

Literacy Test: was something south could make voters take usually balcks to find out if they were even eligible to vote.

1875

Segregation: a racial separation in south states were whites and blacks were separated I public or private facilities.

18761876

George Armstrong Custer: reported that the black hills had gold in them, and also lead the battle of little bighorn.

18771876

Chief Joseph: leader of nez perce and his tribe was forced off of their land.

Nez Perce: their tribe was forced to leave their native land the Wallowa which violated the treaty of 1855.

Thomas Alva Edison: A pioneer on the new industrial frontier and perfected the incandescent light bulb

Alexander Graham Bell: him and Thomas Watson came up with the creation of the telephone opening up worldwide communication.

18771876

Telephone: created by Thomas and Alexander which opened up worldwide communication that aloud mass production and selling.

1876

18831879

Homesteader: settlers of the free land offered by the government. To the head of the house hold.

Ragtime:a mixture of African American and European musical forms.

Booker T. Washington: he believed that racism would stop once blacks proved them selves to be just as capable as learning and acquiring skills.

1880

Wild Bill Hickok: served as a scout and spy during the civil war and later became a marshall.

18831881

Assimilation: a plan under which Native Americans would give up their beliefs and way of life and adopt the whites culture.

18901886

Jane Adams: one of the most influential members of the settlement house movement founded Chicago 5 Hull house.

Urbanization: the growth of cities came as an effect of the technological boom in the Northeast and west regions.

Samuel Gompers: lead of the cigar makers International union to join with other craft unions.

1887

Dawes Act: passed aiming to " Americanize" the Native Americans. It broke up there land and gave them to individual Natives.

18891888

George Eastman: developed alternative ways to produce film by eliminationg the need to carry around dark rooms to develope films and instead just sending them to a studio1889

18901890

Wounded knee: A disgraceful moment when the 7th calvary slaughtered women and children and left there corps to freeze

Ghost Dance: Native Americans turned to prophet and believed that if the performed the ghost dance it would restore their way of life.

KIckback:

workers 'kickback" a portion of earnings to the machine, illegal payments for their service service enriched individual politicians.

1890

Settlement House: a few reformers, community centers in slum neighborhoods that provided assistance to people in the area especially immigrants

18901890

Sherman Antitrust act: made it illegal to form a trust that interferred with free trade between states or with other countries

18961892

Mail Catalog Order: brought merchandise to small towns to place orders to be ship to them. This idea exploded in just a year going from one sheet to a booklet.

William McKinley: 25th president nominated by the republicans and one of his main focuses was on the gold rush.

ohmaha Platform: was a party program. It dealt with the protection of farmers alliance.

1892

Scab: hired workers to break up strikers and keep the workers organized. They were armed and not liked.

18931893

Ellis Island: hot spot for immigration only about 2% were denied entry. They had to pass physical examination and have documents checked.

18981896

Jim Crow Laws: after a popular old minstrel song that ended in words jump jim crow. These laws were set to segregate blacks and white.

Angel Island: primarily Chinese arriving on the west coast gained administration here. It was a immigration hot spot.

Cross of Gold Speech: William Jennings Bryan gives a speech of gold which addresses the gold rush, and how it is divined by a gold cross.

1896

Plessy VS Fugerson: is a land mark in the supreme court ruling about african americans segregation wfhen on the issue that egual rights or everyone.

18971896

Bimetallism: monetary system in which the government gave citizens either gold or silver in exchange for paper currency or checks.

1900

Mark Twain: a famous author who inspired many other writers to write about the actual events of the time with adventure. For example his american classic “ The Adventures Huckleberry Finn”.

1901

Orville and Wilbur Wright: bicycle manufactures from Dayton Ohio who experimented with new engines powerful enough to create flight.

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