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Unit 6
Ch 13 & 14 Growing West & Industrialized East
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Push/pull factors | reasons people leave an area and reasons people move into another location(in example-overcrowding of East and gold in the West) |
| Homestead Act | passed by Congress in 1862 provided 160 acres of land to citizens willing to go west |
| long drive | movement of longhorn cattle from Texas ranches north with cowboys |
| range wars | pockets of violence between cowboys and farmers as the open range was turned into farmland |
| transcontinental railroad | country connected by railroad for the first time when two lines met at Promontory Point, Utah |
| sod houses | homes on the Great Plains constructed by settlers out of sod as lumber was not available |
| Annie Oakley | known as Little Sure Shot |
| Calamity Jane | female sharpshooter and horsewoman |
| Billy the Kid | gunslinger of the West rumored to have killed a person for every year of his life |
| Wyatt Earp | famous lawman of Tombstone Arizona who was part of the famous gunfight at the OK Corral |
| Jesse James | train and bank robber |
| Wild Bill Hickok | gunslinger who was killed while playing poker by being shot in the head |
| Clara Brown | frontier woman who was born a slave but later grew rich in the laundry business in Colorado |
| Wounded Knee | last armed conflict between the Plains Indians and the US Army |
| Battle of Little Bighorn | also known as Custer's Last Stand - 7th Cavalry was killed by Sioux (led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse) and Cheyenne |
| Battle of Washita | preceded the Battle of Little Big horn between the US Army led by Custer versus the Cheyenne led by Chief Black Kettle |
| Ghost Dance | movement designed to bring back the buffalo, old ways, and remove the whites |
| Americanization | process designed to assimilate Indian children into white society by stripping them of their culture in boarding schools |
| Dawes Act | instead of tribal ownership of land, this piece of legislation provided each tribal member with 160 acres |
| US- Dakota War | violence in Minnesota between Dakota Indians and white settlers, in the end 38 Dakota men were executed at Mankato in the largest mass execution in American history |
| Populism | Political movement of the people |
| the Grange | began as a social outlet for farmers but grew into a political movement against railroad abuses |
| Rockefeller | created Standard Oil Company |
| Carnegie | made millions in the steel industry |
| Marry Harris Jones | advocate for coal miners and children |
| Interstate Commerce Act | designed to supervise railroad activities |
| American Federation of Labor | Labor Union of skilled laborers who used collective bargaining to negotiate better wages and working conditions led by Samuel Gompers |
| Sherman Antitrust Act | made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade |
| William Jennings Bryan | Populist Party Presidential nominee in 1896 |
| George Pullman | owned a factory and town for his employees, site of an ugly strike in 1894 |
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