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- andrew carnegie
- captain of industry. leader of american steel industry and gave money to educational instituations
- gilded age
- time period where buisnesses grew larger and corporate leaders got hufe fortunes
- james armstrong custer
- general that lead attack on larger forces of sioux and then got killed at little big horn
- battle of little big horn
- 100s of calvary overwhelmed the seventh clavary. broke into smaller groups to begin buffalo hunt. custer and his men defeated by the sioux
- social darwinism
- charles darwins theory of evolution to human society for natural selection to explain how others prosper and others fail
- populism
- use of ideas and policies appeal to the people by setting up dichtonomy between the people and elite. group of farmers, labor leaders, and reformers
- jane addams
- founded most famous settlement house(where volunteers offered immigrants services) in chicago
- the dawes act
- made reservations and gave bad land to indians for them to learn the american culture
- capitalism
- economic system. buisnesses privatly owned under laissez-faire w/o govt. interference
- gold standard
- economy by gold that lowered inflation and helps our country achieve economic prosperity because silver and gold constinatly influctiating
- thomas edison
- invented lightbulb and organized research and established buisness for manufactured inventions
- george pullman
- developed railroad sleeping car and a big buisness with it. operated company town
- the sherman antitrust act
- signed into law that discouraged trusts, understood as large industrial combinations
- gohst dance
- ritual dance by plains indians to hasten the end of the world, disappearance of whites, revitilization of former cutures, and hunting grounds back
- john d. rockefeller
- to increase profits, used vertical integration and horizantal to take over refineries. gave away alot of money for colleges
- sitting bull
- sioux chief, warrior, medicine man, and political leader who wass sick of being confined to reservations-led peoplefrom different tribes in battle of little big horn
- homestead movement
- law passed by congress to encourage settlment in the wesst by giving land to small farmers
- chief joseph
- the leader of the Nez Perce tribe that killed white settlers on the way to reservations because they were mad at govt. for taking their land
- social gospel
- idea that religious faith should be expressed through good works
- laissez-faire
- let things alone. no govt. interference in buisnesses
- wounded knee massacre
- the US army killing of approximate 150 sioux at wounded knee creek in south dakota, ended the US indian wars on the pains
- vertical integration
- method entrepenours used to increase profits. take over companies that would help their own suceed