| A | B | 
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| soddy | provided warmth but no protection from snakes and insects | 
| Oliver Hudson Kelley | started an aorganization for farmers that came to be known as the Grange | 
| assimilation | plan that sought to abolish Native Americans' traditional cultures | 
| bimetallism | policy that supporters hoped would place more money in the pockets of ordinary people | 
| Battle of Wounded Knee | slaughter of 300 unarmed Native Americans that marked the end of theIndian wars in 1890 | 
| William Jennings Bryan | Populist candidate who lost the presidential election of 1896 | 
| Homestead Act | offered 160 acres of land free to any head of household | 
| Dawes Act | law that allowed white settlers to take much of theland set aside for native Americans | 
| Chisholm Trail | allowed the cattle business to flourish by provideing a route to a shipping yard in Abilene, Kansas | 
| Morrill Act | gave federal land to the states to help finance agricultural colleges | 
| Edwin L. Drake | first successfully used a steam engine to remove oil from beneath the earth's surface | 
| Eugene V. Debs | ran the American Railway Union and later ran for president several times as a socialist | 
| Chirstopher Sholes | invented the typewriter | 
| John D. Rockefeller | created trusts and was criticized as a robber baron while serving as head of the Standard Oil Company | 
| Thomas Alva Edison | perfected the incandescent light bulb, created an electrical power system, and organized power plants | 
| Mary Harris "Mother"  Jones | organized coal miners, their wives, and their children to fight for better working conditions | 
| George M. Pullman | railroad-car mogul who built a town to house his employees | 
| Alexander Graham Bell | opened the way for worldwide communications with invention of the telephone | 
| Andrew Carnegie | Scottish immigrant who made a fortune in steel and donated most of his profits | 
| Henry Bessemer | developed a cheap and effective manufacturing process for making steel |