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US History
West + Industrialization
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Homestead Act (1862) | $10 plots of land in the west to encourage settlement |
| Transcontinental Railroad | Built in 1869, land granted by government to develop the RR and encourage western settlement |
| Dawes Act | dissolved Native tribes, gaves Native families land, and attempted to modernize them |
| Corporations | sold shares or stocks to raise capital for the business, shareholder split the profits and the risk |
| Vigilance Committee | self appointed volunteers who would track down and punish wrongdoers |
| Open Range | a vast area of grassland owned by the federal government |
| Long Drive | the transportation of livestock to the east to sell |
| Haciendas | huge ranches that covered thousands of acres |
| Barrios | Hispanic neighborhoods |
| Henry Comstock | miner who found the "Comstock Lode" in Virginia city, not knowing that he was mining silver ore |
| Boomtowns | towns created around mines which were quickly populated when minerals were near |
| Sodbuster | people who plowed the Plains |
| Bonanza Farms | large farms that yield big profits with the help of machinery and laborers |
| Annuity | annual payments from the government |
| Sand and Creek Massacre | a bloody battle between the Natives and Americans, events unclear |
| Indian Peace Commission | proposed creating two large reservations in the Plains for the Sioux and southern Natives |
| Corliss Steam Engine | a machine that boils water to produces steam to power over 8,000 machines at once |
| Light Bulb | created by Thomas Edison, light is produced from a glowing filament |
| Phonograph | created by Thomas Edison, allowed sound to be played back from recordings in one's home |
| Telegraph | invented by Samuel Morse, emitted small beeps which stood for letters and words |
| Model T Ford | invented by Henry Ford, automobile |
| Andrew Carnegie | entered the steel industry during the RR boom and utilized vertical integration |
| John D. Rockefeller | started Standard Oil Company, disliked competition, eliminated competition through horizontal integration |
| Vertical Integration | purchasing companies necessary to make your product |
| Horizontal Integration | taking over your competitors to eliminate competition |
| JP Morgan | trained banker, made money through loans, bought Carnegie Steel |
| Laissez-Faire | policy adopted by Americans supporting that the government shouldn't involve themselves in business affairs, hands off |
| Social Darwinism | the belief that it was only natural that weak companies fail while strong ones thrive |
| Old Immigration | took place between 1800 and 1880, most immigrants came from northwestern Europe |
| New Immigrantion | took place after 1880, most immigrants came from southern and eastern Europe |
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