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- What was Mark Twain's nickname for the Industrial Era 1870-1900?
- The Gilded Age
- Causes of the downfall of indians?
- miners looking for gold, extermination of the buffalo, railroads bringing settlers, white man's diseases, white man's treachery in violating treaties
- Name the last major indian battle
- Wounded Knee
- Name the law which confined all indians to reservations
- Dawes Allotment act - 160 acres to each Indian male for a farm
- Dodge City, Kansas
- Cowtown
- Deadwood, Dakota
- Mining town
- Virginia city
- mining town
- Resons for decline of range cattle business
- overgrazing of the range, bad weather, farmers with plows and barbed wire, railroads
- Hardships of farmers in great plains
- no trees, low rainfall, high railroad rates to farmers, bad weather, 160-acres
- Laissez Faire
- term for an economy allowed to operate free of govt. interference
- Reasons U.S. was favorable for industrialization
- natural resources, govt favoritism to business, cheap labor-weak immigration laws, high protective tariff, no real regulations of business, sound money policy, land grants to railroads, troops to break strikes, perversion of anti trust law to busy strikes/unions
- Real Economic spark to rapid U.S. industrialization
- RAILROADS
- First transcontinental railroad
- union Pacific-central pacific
- First transcontinental railroad
- union Pacific-central pacific
