1. 2-13
Great plains- left to the Indians until the
American people had interest in it. We
slowly took the land away from them
legislatively until we forced many of them
off their land it the later 1800’s
late 1800
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Monopoly- When a business is the Collective Bargaining- the process of negation between a
only business producing a product; no business and their employees about agreement on working
competition. This was seen on one of conditions in the late 1800’s is when this negation became a
the largest scales in history in the late large issue
1800’s with John D. Rockefeller and the
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oil industry.
Culture Shock- in the late 1800’s many immigrants came to
America based on the ideas of what their friends and family
have told them in letters. They were rudely awakened when they
arrived and didn’t find the world of opportunity they were
looking for.

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Settlement house- Political Machine- An organized group that lead the Mark Twain – A writer, he
Houses that were actions of a political party in a city. They offered opposed many of the
created by reformers services to voters and businesses in exchange for common social beliefs
from the Social Gospel their support. These groups gained power a few such as racism and
Movement. These decades after the civil war. showed his opposition,
houses were created points, and disgust
to provide assistance 5-15 through his books. Also he
to people in the area, Jacob Riis- A Danish American who was a inspired other writers
especially immigrants journalist and a photographer. He used his skills because of writing
to help try to break the poverty of New York. He independent of “ligature
discovered the use of flash for photography and all that bosh”
Late 1800 early 1900
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Kickback-a method that politicians to steal Ida B. Wells- Born into slavery,
government money. A politician would tell a worker she moved to Memphis. She
to say that he needs a larger amount of money than later became the local news
the worker really need to complete a government paper editor and often she
project, then the politician sends the extra money would write about racial
that the worker asked for and because its extra the inequality.
worker takes some and then the rest is “kicked
back” to the politician
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Urbanization- because of the Patronage- when people are given Melting pot – a pot where many
industrial boom, cities grew on government administration. things are mixed and create a
large proportions causing Because they helped the candidate single mix, America was the
Urbanization mostly effecting the get elected. This was known as the melting pot of cultures in the
northeast and Midwest spoils system in Jacksons time. late 1800’s

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Bessemer process-
one of the leading
inventions of the
1800’s, this process
was developed by
Henery Bessemer
and William Kelly in
1850, it was used by
most steel
industry's by 1880
1850 1857 1859
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Social Darwinism-
Fredrick Law
Taking the principle
Olmsted- A
ideas of Darwinism
Landscape
and applying them to
Architect that
business.
focused on
restoring the
greenery and
environment to the
heavily
industrialized cities,
he laid the plans
down for New York
Central Park.

4. 5-13
Exodusters- were
the colored people
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that made up part
of the 600,000 Homesteader- one of
people who left to the 600,000 people
Kansas because that took advantage
of the homestead of the homestead act
act and received free land
1862 1864 1865
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The Homestead act
Sand Creek Longhorns- Short
offering 160 acres of
massacre- when the tempered breeds of
free land in Kansas
Native American were cattle great for
to the head of any
slaughtered even producing food and
household or
though they were helped ranchers meet
planned to be head of
innocent, by general the wants of the
a house hold, 600,000
S.R. Curtis demand for beef in
people took
1865
advantage of this
offer

5. 1868- 1876-
1866 - 1886 1868 1881
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Long Drive-along Tammany Hall- was Sitting Bull- 1868 he
with the longhorns the place where New was one of the
was the long drive, it York's powerful leaders that did not
was used to democratic political sign the treaty of Fort
transport cattle over machine was located Larmie,1876 had a
large areas of land in 1868. This place vision of fighting, and
and included a small was known for its fought in the battle of
team of people to do corruption. Little Big Horn, but
it. later in 1881 he was
forced to surrender to
save his people

6. Tweed Ring- the
inside corrupt group
10-15 of political leaders
George inside of Tammany
Westinghouse- One Hall. They are lead by 1-15
of the rivals to William M. Tweed or Ellis Island- an island
Thomas Edison, he “Boss Tweed” hence in the harbor of New
invented the air the name Tweed Ring. York where
brake in 1869 and This group cheated Immigrants are
also pioneered into and stole so much required to go before
the electrical field of money from everyone they are allowed to
study. who payed taxes. enter the country.
May 10th 1869 1869-1871 1870
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The Continental Graft-The illegal
Railroad- is finally use of political
connected uniting influence for
east and west of personal gain. This
America with railroad act of corruption
tracks, more and was happening all
more railroads over in all different
branched from this ways in the late
one until in 1890 we 1800’s
had almost 180,000
miles of track

7. 1870’s-1880’s 1870-1890 1870’s-1897
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Segregation- the Gilded Age- a term John D. Rockefeller-
separation between meaning fancy on the One of the Richest
blacks and whites in outside but not so men to live on earth,
public and private pretty on the inside, a he used powerful
places by law, this term Mark Twain uses business tactics that
regulations was to title his book had never been seen
almost everywhere in portraying the greed before to conquer his
the south. in society in this time competition and
in history. achieve the high of a
Monopoly as well as
$1,500,000,000 when
he retired in 1897

8. 1872-1910 1874- 1876 1876
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Mail-order Catalog- George Armstrong The Battle of Little
Wards catalog Custer- in 1874 said Big Horn- Where
launched in 1872 and the black hills had Custer, a US army
started the mail-order gold “from the grass official fought against
system and as time roots down” later in a much larger army of
went on it grew and 1876 he fought Native Americans.
by 1910 10 million against the Indians Custer lost 268 men
Americans shopped and died in the Battle and his life in the
by mail of Little Big Horn battle. The Natives
only lost around 90

9. 1876-
1876 1877
1880
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Alexander Gram Bell- Thomas Edison- he The Nez Perce, an
along with the help of established the first Indian tribe are forced
Watson invented the laboratory, and it was off their land in
telephone located in Menlo Park Oregon
New Jersey. He also
patented the
incandescent light
bulb in 1880.

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Dumbbell Booker T. Washington -A
tenements- Prominent African
required every American educator. He
room to have a believed racism would
window to fresh end when blacks
air, this is called became well educated
dumbbell and had the labor force
tenements because skills. In 1881 he was the
the air shafts were head of the Tuskegee
shaped like Normal and industrial
dumbbells Institute
1879 1880’s 1881
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Ragtime- a type of Assimilation- The
music containing idea of modernizing
parts of African the Native
American and Americans and
European style accepting them into
music. It originated in society, many
the saloons of the Americans
south supported this in
1881

11. 1884 1886 1887-1932
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Mugwumps- Samuel Gompers-he The Daws Act- Trying
Republicans who lead the Cigar to put the idea of
switched to support makers’ International assimilation into
of the democratic Union to join with reality by giving each
candidate Grover Craft unions. The Native American
Cleveland because of American Federation household their own
the dislike they held of labor had Gompers land instead of just a
for the financially as president and general territory.
corrupt republican focused on strikes to Sadly most of the
candidate. improve working land was stolen by
conditions 1932 and the act
overall failed.

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George Eastman- Grandfather Clause- Another
developed camera film voting law stating that if your
so that black plates grandfather voted than you
didn’t have to be used are exempt from the literacy
anymore, he also test and the poll tax, but of
invited the Kodak, and course no blacks had fathers
because of the Kodak who had voted and so this
created many new was another act putting white
photographers that men in power
couldn't have been
before 1890-1910
1888 1890 Dec. 28 1890
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Trust- a contract Sherman Anti-trust Wounded Knee- it was
developed in-between act- passed by a battle concluding the
companies to form a Congress in 1890 this bitter end of the Indian
monopoly without act attempted to limit war and era.
having to be one giant business through the
company, instead it ICC, but because the
created many small ICC’s power was very
companies linked limited and there was
together with trusts to no clear definition of a
act like one company. “trust” the act didn’t
This was made illegal reach its goal for the
in 1890 time being.

13. 1894 1895 After 1900
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Eugene V. Socialism- a W.E.B. Dubious- Literacy Test-
Debs- used political and first African Southern states made
the idea of economical system American to voting limited to
having both based on receive a literate men, and then
skilled and government control doctorate from made a much harder
unskilled of business and Harvard. He did test for the African
workers in a property and equal this in 1895. He Americans than the
union and distribution of strongly urged whites.
formed the wealth. This idea blacks to educate
150,000 ARU was solution in the themselves as
against minds of some of much as they can
Pullman the ARU in 1894

14. 1901 1898
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Andrew Carnegie- After William Randolph Hearst- A Joseph Pulitzer- a
moving to America in 1848 man in the news paper Hungarian immigrant who
Andrew rose up from business and had a large bought the New York World
complete poverty to rival named joseph and competed against
wealth. he is a great Pulitzer, he hoped to out do William Randolph Hearst
American success story of his opponent with big with his creativeness with
a man who worked hard, interesting exaggerated BS writing different articles,
became successful and stories. Because of the and that contributed to why
gave much of his wealth rivalry in 1898 there were more than 1 million papers
away. He owned the largest more than 1 million sold everyday
steel producing company newspapers sold everyday.
in 1901

15. Early
1900’s
1910 1911
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Orville and Wilbur Angel island- the Debt peonage- a
Wright- tested gliders equivalent of Ellis system that bound
over and over and island but only it is laborers into slavery
then experimented located on the west in order to pay back
with flight of heavier coast instead of the the debt to the
than air craft east, one major employers, this
propelled by engines difference between happened to blacks
They launched their the two are Angle had and Mexicans in the
first successful flight much worse southeast and wasn’t
in kitty hawk NC. conditions than Ellis overruled until 1911