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US History
Western Expansion and Gilded Age
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bessemer Process | The first inexpensive process that used pig iron to make steel. |
| Telephone | a system for transmitting voices over a distance using wire or radio. |
| Great Plains | A broad expanse of flat land much of it covered in prairie, steppe, and grassland. |
| Indian Wars | A collective name for the various armed conflicts that were fought by European governments and colonist , later US and Canada |
| American Indian Citizenship Act | June 2, 1924. the right to vote for natives to vote (some states did not like this) |
| Transcontinental Railroad | first railroad to reach both west and eastern sides of the country. |
| Thomas Edison | A famous inventor that specialized in the electric world. |
| Klondike Gold Rush | |
| Reservations | |
| Alexander Graham Bell | |
| Frontier | |
| Homestead Act | |
| Dawes Act | |
| Corporation | |
| National Market | |
| Monoploy | |
| Interstate Commerce Act | |
| Laissez-Faire |