Chapters 13 thru 15
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- John D Rockefeller
- Oil, bought out other companies by selling oil dirt cheap til others ran out of business.
- Andrew Carnige
- Brings Bessemer project to the usa.
- George Pullman
- revolutionizes cars, builds towns, no alcohol.
- Henry Bessemer
- Invented the process of making steel.
- Thomas Edison
- invented electricity and markets it to the people
- Alexander Graham Bell
- invents the phone
- George A. Custer
- apart of lil big horn
- Sarah Winchester
- Builds a huge house out of just 8 rooms. Everything had 13 of something on it.
- Treaty of Fort Laramine
- Moves all native americans on to reservations
- Dawes Act
- 1887 americanizes native americans.
- Homestead Act
- Goverment gives land to the people who can afford it.
- Morrill Act
- federal goverement will pay for university.
- Interstate Commerce Act
- the goverment can control anything traded between the states. Helps regulate the R. R. companies
- Sherman Anti Trust Act-
- makes it illegal to establish a monopoly.
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Immigrants
Level A -
Face-Racism
Violence
Low wages
large famiies -
Immigrants
Level B -
Assimilation for Immigrants
speak english
adopt american values
erase their past, learn ours -
Immigrants
Level C -
Living Conditions
crowded
dirty
no covenieneces
diease
poverty