US History Unit 5
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- John Rockefeller
- Industrialist and philanthropist responsible for creation of Standard Oil
- Homestead Act
- Passed in 1862, it gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years. The settler would only have to pay a registration fee of $25.
- Union Pacific Railroad
- A railroad that started in Omaha, and it connected with the Central Pacific Railroad in Promentary Point, UTAH; one of the frist railroads
- Central Pacific Railroad
- A railroad that started in Sacramento , and connected with the Union Pacific Railroad in Promentary Point, UTAH
- Virginia City, Nevada
- Almost overnight the town went from a frontier outpost to a boomtown of 30,000 people, silver
- Dawes Act
- act that made reservations and gave land to Native Americans and made them become part of the America cultures
- Andrew Carnegie
- United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919); founder of the Carnegie Steel Company
- Sitting Bull
- A chief of the Sioux;took up arms against settlers in the northern Great Plains and against United States Army troops; he was present at the battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when the Sioux massacred General Custer's troops (1831-1890)
- Great Plains
- Located west of the interior lowlands and east of the Rocky Mountains; flatland that gradually increases in elevation westward; grasslands; cattle drives
- Credit Mobilier
- a joint-stock company organized in 1863 and reorganized in 1867 to build the Union Pacific Railroad. It was involved in a scandal in 1872 in which high government officials were accused of accepting bribes.
- Thomas Edison
- United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931)