Westward Expansion/ Industrial Revolution/Urbanization
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- Barbed Wire
- Helped to end the open frontier
- Populism
- A political movement for the people
- Merger
- Combining 2 companies for bigger profit
- Bessemer Process
- Removing carbon from iron to make steel
- Morrill Act
- Set upb agricultural colleges and land grant universities
- Homestead Act
- 160 acres of land if you farm it
- Exoduster
- African American settlers out west
- Credit Mobilier
- Construction Company used by railroads to steal money
- Graft
- Using political imfluence for personal gain
- Horizontal Integration
- Buying out your competition
- Alexander Graham Bell
- Invented the telephone
- Sherman Anti-Trust act
- failed to break up the trusts
- Pre-Union conditions
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12- 16 hour work day
dangerous working conditions - James Garfield
- assassinated for his belief in civil service
- Grover Cleveland
- only president elected to 2 non-consecutive terms
- nativists
- People who hated immigrants
- Boss Tweed
- Ran Tamany Hall
- John Rockefeller
- made a monopoly in the oil business
- Vertical Integration
- Buying out the means of production and delivery to the consumer
- Christopher Shoals
- Invented the typewriter
- Angel Island
- Asian immigrants entered America through this place
- Sitting Bull
- Spiritual Leader of the Siouz Nation at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
- Andrew Carnegie
- cornered the market in the steel business
- Political Machine
- organization that controlled the politics of a city or state
- tenements
- cramped urban housing where most immigrants were forced to live
- Horatio Alger
- Wrote "rags to riches" novels that were very popular
- Laissez Faire
- "Hands-Off", no govenment influence on business
- Effects of the Railroad on society in the late 19th century
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*shortened travel time
*Time zones
*Cities formed at RR
*More people traveled west - Social Darwinism
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Natural Selection amongst humans
*Let Robber Barons make money and no government interference
*Poor people and working class are on the bottom - taken advantage of