It encouraged Western migration by providing 160 acres of land and if they lived and farmed on the land given, the people would get to keep it.
The Homestead Act
A federal law that intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners
The Dawes Act
Is a friendly organization in the United States that encourages families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture.
National Grange
A train route going across the United States and the two sides of the railroad met in Utah
Transcontinental Railroad
An American business magnate and philanthropist who built fortune in oil and steel
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Was the first law implemented to prevent a specific ethnic group from immigrating to the United States
Chinese Exclusion Act
Was an American inventor and draftsmen. He worked for Electric Lighting Company and he patented the carbon filament incandescent lightbulb
Lewis Latimer
Because America had so much wealth, it led to poverty and it was called the Gilded Age.
(Gilded refers to something covered with a thin layer of gold)
Gilded Age
Was an American captain of industry and was the founder of Ford's Motor Company
Henry Ford
Was an American business man and was the founder of Standard Oil Company
John D. Rockefeller
Act A federal law that passed in 1890 that prohibited monopolies
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Negotiation of wages and other conditions of employment by an organized body of employees.
Collective Bargaining
To take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully
Assimilate
An institution in an inner-city area providing educational, recreational, and other social services to the community.
Settlement Houses
A self-made man who moved to the United States from Scotland without money and made millions in the steel industry
Andrew Carnegie
The transcontinental railroad allowed for the transportation of goods over long distances. ... While the nation was still divided due to the Civil War, this railroad helped unify the nation eventually making it a super power.
How did the Transcontinental Railroad impact the West?
Mostly Blacks, Native Americans, Mexican, and people who performed the duties of being a cowboy. Life as a cowhand was lonely because you had no one to talk to. Painful because the cowhands would have to sit on a saddle for 15 hours every day. Also, there
Following the Civil War, what types of people became cowhands? Why? What was life as a cowhand like?
They used almost every part of the buffalo. By the 1800s, Native Americans learned to use horses to chase bison, dramatically expanding their hunting range. But then white trappers and traders introduced guns in the West, killing millions more buffalo for
What happened to the American bison (buffalo) throughout the 1800s? How did that affect the lives of Native American tribes living in the Great Plains?
The Farmers Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in 1875. ... One of the goals of the organization was to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers in the period followi
Why did farmers form alliances? Be sure to discuss the Grange. What role did alliances play in the lives of farmers in the Great Plains?
The Pullman sleeping car by George Pullman. The air breaks by Westing-house, standard gauge, and time zones, Refrigerated railroad cars by Swift.
Please list and describe several inventions that improve the railroads throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries
Samuel Gompers was an American Laborer AFL and tried to make pay hire and less working hours. He was a big believer in Collective barging. Labor unions were necessary because they needed money to survive and better treatment so they can move out of the sl
Who was Samuel Gompers? What role did he play in the union movement? Were unions necessary during the Gilded Age? Why or why not?
JP Morgan was an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation in the United States of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He financed railroads and helped organize U.S. Steel, General Electric a
Who was JP Morgan? What role did he play in making businesses more efficient?
George Eastman created the roll film, Kodak Camera, and Kodak No. 1. Alexander Bell created the telephone. Gustavus Swift created refrigerated railroad cars. Thomas Edison invented the Incandescent light bulb and research labs.
List and describe the inventions of George Eastman, Alexander Bell, Gustavus Swift, Thomas Edison.
Americans increasingly moved into cities over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a movement motivated in large measure by industrialization
Why was there a mass migration to cities between 1870 and 1920?
Tenements were a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
Describe living conditions in tenements. What was done to address these conditions?
Immigrants came from Germany, Ireland, and The United Kingdom. They tend to come from rural areas because they didn't have much money to live in urban societies.
Immigrants came from which countries? Did they tend to come from rural or urban societies? Why?
The "City Beautiful" movement was where Daniel Hudson Burnham and Fredrick Law Olmstead believed that there should be natural space in the city so that those who lived in the city could enjoy nature as well as they urban areas. So, with this in mind Mr. B
What was the "City Beautiful" movement? Who lead the movement?