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| laissez faire | A type of economy where the government has little involvement in business matters. |
| reservations | Land set aside by the U.S. govt. for Native American tribes |
| Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse | Indean chiefs who united the Sioux to drive white sellter from their land |
| Wounded Knee Massacre | Marked the end of armed resistance of Native Americans |
| Homestead Act | A law that encouraged settlers to go west by offereing free land |
| Dawes Act | Intended to encourage Native Americans to give up their ways and become farmers. |
| transcontinental railroad | Built by the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads |
| Populist Party | Formed by several farm groups. Wanted the govt. to adopt a free silver policy |
| Grange | A farmers social organization that helped them work together to seek solution to their porblems. |
| corporations | A type of business that sells shares of stock to investors |
| Thomas Edison | Invented the light bulb |
| Alexander Graham Bell | Invented the telephone |
| monopoly | The business practice that Standared Oil used to control the oil industry. |
| John Rockefeller | Took over the oil industry |
| Andrew Carnegie | Controlled the steel industry |
| Knights of Labor | A labor union that allowed women and African Americans to join |
| American Federatin of Labor | The most poerful labor unin in the U.S. in the late 1800's |
| socialism | An economic system in which all members of a society are euqal owners of all businesses. |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Fire | 150 eople died when a fire spread through a factory. New safety laws laws were approved. |
| Haymarket Riot Pullman Strike Homestead Strike | Laborerss striked for better pay |
