US History Ch 26
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- Moved West to Utah in search of religious freedom (Mormon)
- Joseph Smith
- Led Mormons to final place
- Brigham Young
- Moved with Joe Smith toward West to find religious freedom-- polygamy
- Mormons
- Where central pac and union pac meet
- Promontory Point, UT
- West > in. Poor, illiterate, Helped build trans RR
- Irish Immigrants
- Treated horribly, dynomite, helped build trans RR
- Chinese Immigrants
- Household duties
- Role of Women
- Became a little known core of cowboy legend
- Roles of Afro-Americans
- Mainstay of Indian society, used all parts of animals, helped Indians to give in
- Buffalo Soldiers
- Silver mines, richest mineral find
- Comstock Lode
- Gave land to those who would establish a home in western towns
- Homestead Act of 1862
- Granted land to new states and mandated that new colleges be started
- Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862
- Mass Occupation of people to obtain free land (160 acres 2+ yrs. old)
- Oklahoma Land Rush
- indian v. US fight was under a flag of truce and the US attacked indians killing men women and children?
- Sand Creek Massacre
- when the US charged and captured Big Foot and disarmed their warriors
- Wounded Knee
- when george cluster wanted to do a 3 column attack from all sides so the indians couldn't go around but instead the all fought at the middle and beat the US
- Battle of Little Big Horn
- "I will fight no more forever." Lead Nez Perce
- Chief Joseph
- Famous indian tribe fought all the way to canada-- didn't want to live on reservation
- Nez Perce
- Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Indian Days
- Century of Dishonor by Helen Hun Jackson
- Horrible injustices on Indians
- Dawes Severalty Act
- Invented by John Deere, helped agriculture in west "sod buster"
- Steel Plow
- End of free range system
- Barbed Wire
- Irrigation.. pumps water to fields
- Windmill
- Group of farmers work together to help force businesses and RR to deal fairly with farmers
- The Grange
- Didn't include blacks (alliance)
- National Farmer Alliances
- White southerners (alliance) Take power from Nat'l Gov't
- Southern Alliance
- Blacks alliance
- Colored Farmers Alliance
- Farmers together for economic power -- sold items in bulk
- Farmer Co-Ops
- Political desires of the populist party
- Omaha Platform
- Kickback $ given to big businesses in exchange for shipping big freight
- Rebates
- Regulates RR and created interstate congress commission
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Voice of Populism
- William Jennings Bryan
- denounces gold standard and used both gold and silver (bimetallism)
- "Cross of Gold" Speech
- Nickname for $ backed by gold
- Greenbacks
- Added beef to daily diet
- Refrigerator Car
- Court case concerning storage of grain and max prices
- Munn v. Illinois
- State the Fed Gov't was the sole body responsible for interstate commerce, overturned Granger laws
- Wabash Case
- Architecture (whose influence?)
- Mexican Influence
- Forced indians into smaller plots of ground to make it easier to control them
- Reservation System
- Used plains to move large # of cattle from areas where they were raised to railroad heads and other transportation nexus
- Cattle Drives
- occurs when a business expands its control over other similar or closely related businesses
- horizontal integration
- occurs when a business expands its control over other business that are part of its overall manufacturing process
- vertical integration
- linkages among corporations created by individuals who sit on two or more corporate boards
- Interlocking directorates