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The realationship between the US goverment and the Indian tribes within the borders
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Railroads were soon put in most parts of the world for better use of them. It gav better transportation of people and goods to many parts of the country
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American author who wrote oevr 100 books. Won the "Pulitzer Prize For Fiction" award.
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How the factories worked back then. It was normal to work 12 hour days, 6 days a week in most factories
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A widely held belief that American settlers were destined to expand across the continent.
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first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel. Named after inventor Henry Bessemer who patented it 4 years later, after it was invnted in 1855
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American union leader, Ran for President Of The United States, and helped with the foundeing of the American Railway Union
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several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, at little or no cost. In the United States, this originally consisted of grants totaling 160 acres
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An inexpensive fence people used to keep animals in. Also used in Trench Warfare. They were also a lot easier to erect than other tyoe of fences
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A symbol of greed and corruption typical in most businessmen and politicians
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used to buy out the competition and to maintain market dominance
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Founder of an oil company that dominated the industry. And ran it for almost 30 years (27)
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"Survival Of The Fittest" This is based on the theory that those who were weak, like the lower class, would lose their cultural identity, while the upper class would grow in power and control.
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Immigration during this time made the economy worse than it already was. Most of the "immigrants" came from neighboring countires.
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Transcontinintal railroad complete. Oil companies formed. Steel companies in the US were formed
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When a person of a group or place becomes part of another group or place. in 1880-1920, immigrants made them selfs at home
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Tomas Edison, Electrio- Lamp
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Improving the genetic quality of the human population. Making more rich people thn poor
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The invention of the auto mobile was one of the bggest things that occured during the Gilded Age. It provided a better, safer, and faster means of transportation
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Began as workers striking for an 8-hour work day. Then an unknown person threw a dynimite bomb at the police. Then gun fire broke out and 7 officers died and many civillians
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survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians
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A wealthy steel company owner who sold his company for $480 million dollars. Started out as a poor kid when moved to america
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This was a massacre when a fight broke out over a rifle. One gun shot was fired and then more did too. A total of close to 300 people were killed. A mixture of men, women, children, and soliders.
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Railway Strike of 1877, Haymarket Riot of 1886, Homestead Strike of 1892, Pullman Strike of 1893 are all major events caused by labor unions
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President Of The United Ststes (1901-1909)
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regulated food and drugs moving in interstate commerce and forbade the manufacture, sale, or transportation of poisonous patent medicines. Signed by Theodore Roosevelt
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Henry Ford redefined the Assembly line. he said if engine installation takes 20 minutes, hood installation takes five minutes, and wheel installation takes 10 minutes, then a car can be produced every 35 minutes.
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the opportunity for prosperity and success, and an upward social mobility achieved through hard work.
