Chapter 5 vocab section 1-3
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- Chief Joseph
- Tribal Chief of Nez Perce tribe. He fought to preserve his homeland and did much to awaken the conscience of America to the flight of Native Americans.
- Ghost Dance
- Dance that Plain' Indians hoped would help them revclaim thier old way of life.
- Settlement House
- A place where voluteers offered immigrants services.
- Nativism
- Native born Americans.
- George Pullman
- He made his fortune by designing and building sleeper cars that made longer distance rail travel more comfortable.
- Bessemer Process
- Made steel making faster and cheaper.
- Gilded Age
- A crucial time period for U.S including the civil war and reconstruction, in prosperity (economy), corruption, Jim Crow, poverty, greed.
- Gold Standard
- Made republican party win.
- Sitting Bull
- American, Idian medicine man, chief and political leader of his tribe at the time of the custer massacre during the Sioux War.
- Social Darwinism
- Lifestyle according to Darwin's theory as natural selection which explained why some people in society prosper and others dont.
- Vertical Intergation
- Involves the gathering of many functions into a single firm. Vertical Integration, horizontal integration. (monopoly)
- Push and Pull factors
- Reasons why people left their homes and reasons why people came to the West.
- Tenement
- Rundown apartment buildings in extremely poor conditions.
- Geronimo
- Apache leader who led raids on the Arizona-Mexico border.
- Enrepeneur
- Risks takers who started ne ventures within the economic system.
- Capitalism
- An economic ststem in which most buisnesses are privately owned.
- Reservations
- Territories where the U.S. government moved Native Americans to.
- Thomas Edison
- One of America's greatest scientist who created the lightbulb ect.
- Sand Creek Massacre
- U.S Army's killing of about 150 Cheyenne elderly, women, and children at Sand Creek Reservation in Colorado Terrirtory.
- Andrew Carnegie
- Scotish born American industrialist and philanthropist who founded Carnegie steel comp. in 1892. By 1901, his country dominated the American steel industry.
- Laissez-faire
- French term "to let things alone." An economic doctrine that opposes governmental regulation of or interference in commerce beyond the min. necessary for a free-enterprise system.
- Chisholm Trail
- Important cattle trail, which began in San Antonio and ended in Kansas.
- Homestead Movement Act
- Allowed any head of household over age of 21 to claim 160 acres of land.
- Battle of Little Big Horn
- June 25, 1826 was the battle between the U.S army and the Sioux; Indians; the Sioux defeated the U.S army outnumbered.
- Tammany Hall
- The most notorious political machine.
- John D. Rockefeller
- Industrialist that actively participated in the managment of the company; standard oil.
- Ellis Island
- Was an entry point for 12 million immigrants to the U.S. between 1892 and 1954.
- Sherman Anit-trust Act
- A law that made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restrain free trade.
- Wounded Knee Massacre
- The Sioux Indians were captured by the U.S army and were forced to surremder their weapons. The deaths of the Soux Indians of 153 came the next morning.
- Populist Party
- Political party that supported free coinage of silver, work, reforms, immigration reactions, and government ownership of railroads, telegraph and telephone system. Mostly farmers. William Jennigs Byon.
- Corporation
- Is a business with legal status of an individual.
- Labor Unions
- Pressure employers into giving better pay and safer work places.
- George Armstrong Custer
- He was known for the custer massacre during the Indians wars in America.
- Dawes Act
- Represented an attempt to speed the assimilation of Native Americans into U.S society, proposed to break up tribal communities, and redistribute communal land to individual Indians assimilated of American culture.
- Lynching
- Murder of an individuals by a group or mob.
- Cornelius Vanderbelt
- He began investing in railroads during the Civil war.