| A | B |
|---|
| Assimilation | Plan for indians to give up their ways be become part of white culture. |
| Chinese Exclusion Act | First major law restricting immigration to the United States |
| Exodusters | African Americans who migrated from states following the Civil War. |
| Wounded Knee | Slaughter of Indians after Sitting Bull was killed by US Army. |
| Sand Creek | Slaughter of Indians in Colorado |
| Dawes Act | 160 acres given to Indians to settle |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | "Custer's last stand" fought over Black Hills |
| Ghost Dance | Celebration for Indians - pray, fast, visions |
| Homestead Act | Gave whites 160 acres would be theirs after 5 yrs. |
| Open Range | No fences animals grazed at will. |
| End of Open Range | Property owners fenced in their property. |
| Transcontinental Trade | Railroads were able to move goods across the country. |
| Agranian Movement | People moving west to become farmers. |
| The Grange | Farmers' alliance farmers to fight railroads prices. |
| Populism | "People's Party" fought for economic and political reforms. |
| Graduated Income Tax | Economic reform wanted by Populist |
| Senators elected by popular vote. | Election reform wanted by Populist. |
| 8 Hour Work Week | Work reform by Populist. |
| People's Party | Also known as Populism |
| Bimetallism | Exchange of gold and silver for paper money. |
| Silverites | Farmers, labors, wanted both metals to back currency. |
| Gold Standard | The backing of dollars by gold only. |
| William Jennings Bryant | Democratic Nominee backed silverites. |
| Cross of Gold Speech | William Jennings Bryant's Democratic Convention Speech |
| Bessemer Process | Injecting air into molten iron to make steel. |
| Thomas Alva Edison | Patented the light bulb. |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone. |
| Promontory Utah | Site where Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads met. |
| George Pullman | Built sleeper and other railroad cars. |
| Mass production | Due to invention of electricity and assembly lines. |
| Corporations | Funded by a large group of share holders. |
| Horizontal Itegration | Buying out competitors that make what your company makes. |
| Vertical Integration | Buying out suppliers and transportation for your use. |
| Monopolies | Buying out all of your competition. |
| Trusts | Monopolies or near-monopolies |
| Robber Barons | Capitalist the got wealth by using people and ruthlessness. |
| William Vanderbilt | He merged railroads and owned 90% of them |
| Andrew Carnegie | Steel man-vertical & horizontal model |
| John D. Rockerfeller | Oil man-Standard Oil |
| J. P. Morgan | Banker, reorganized rr's, bought Carnegie Steel |
| New Immigrants | From China. Japan, Europe |
| Angel Island | Immigrants from Asia check into US here. |
| Ellis Island | Immigrants from Europe check in here. |
| Assimilitation | Immigrants adopt American culture, language... |
| Ghettos | Urban areas where a certain minority group lives. |
| Hull House(Settlement House) | Settlement House founded by Jane Addams. |
| Tenement Housing | Multifamily urban dwelling usually overcrowded and dirty. |
| Political Machine | Group that controlled the political party in a city. |
| Boss Tweed | Head of Tammany Hall NYC |
| Tammany Hall | Corrupt group of politicians NYC |
| Sherman Anti-Trust Act | Government's first attempt to regulate monopolies. |
| Social Darwinism | Survival of the fittest in businesses. |
| Clayton Anti-Trust Act | Prohibited a company from buying stock if doing so would create a monoply. |
| Federal Reserve Act | Established 12 Regional Banks across the country that served the banks in that district. |
| Terence Powderly | Irish Immigrant "Knights of Labor" Leader |
| Samual Gompers | Led AFL craft labor union used collective bargaining. |
| Eugene Debs | Led Industrial Workers of the World - violent |
| American Federation of Labor | AFL - led by Gompers-peaceful |
| Great Railroad Strike 1877 | Pres. Hayes ended because strike stopped interstate commerce. |
| Homestead Strike | Carnegie Steel - hired scabs to do the work. |
