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U.S. History

Submitted by JuniorOU on November 15, 2005

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farmers and railroad
• Railroad helped transport crops to other parts of the country more efficiently.

cattle drives
• 3,000 cattle
• 18 men
• chuck wagon and cook
• wranglers for the horses - 8/men
• 20-25 miles per day

Laissez-Faire type of government
• Government should leave business alone - H. Spencer.
• Was the largest deterrent to reform in the second half of the 19th century.
• Dominated in the New South.
• Helped by religious groups.

Tammany Hall
• Political machine: Boss Tweed Ring of New York.

minorities working on cattle drives
• Large amount were Hispanic or black.

Bessemer Process
• made steel stronger and produced it faster.

Why the cattle drive ended?
• overgrazing
• barbed wire
• water rights
• competition for land, sheep, and cattle

View of Plains Indians compared to whites?
• Plains Indians - nomadic
• whites - wanted to settle

American Federation of Labor
• 1881, Samuel Gompers
• skilled labor, organized - local, state, national
• no political goal, believed in strikes
• wanted an 8 hour work day, union to represent all workers, collective bargaining

Which battles were the Native Americans victorious?
• none

cow towns

All of the following contributed to the conflict between Indians and Whites.
• Railroad came through their territory.
• Nez Perce removed from Oregon.
• reservations
• Wounded Knee

Dawes Act
• attempted to Americanize the Indian
• break up the tribal structure
• give each family 160 acres
• accepted they would get full citizenship
• education free
• most Indians resisted

Guilded Age
• growth of...

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