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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 |