Key terms dealing with mines

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Key terms dealing with mines?

• Comstock Lode
• Boom town
• Ghost town
• problems

• Silver strike in the Sierra Nevadas
• Town that quickly grew up at a gold strike
• Boom towns after the gold was gone
• Pollution, Native Americans pushed off their
  land, foreign miners treated poorly

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Transcontinental Railroad

• Could travel by rail across the United States
• Attracted Chinese immigrants
• Brought rapid growth economic and settlement

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Key terms dealing with ranching?

• longhorns
• Cattle Kingdom
• Reasons for success
• Open range

• Cattle that roamed free in the West
• Ranches spread throughout the West
• Need for beef for miners, railroad workers, etc.
  Railroads could ship beef from cities like Kansas
  City to eastern cities
• Ranchers let their cattle wander. Barbed wire
  ended this practice and changes ranching.

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Key terms dealing with farming on the plains?

• Homestead Act
• Sodhouses
• sodbusters

• 160 acres given free if the land was farmed for 5
  years.
• Houses made out of sod best building material
  on the plains.
• Nickname for farmers who had to break through the
  thick layer of sod to farm.

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Populist Party

• 1891-1896
• Consisted of farmers and labor unions
• Free silver all silver mined to be made into
  money
• William Jennings Bryan was most famous member

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Key terms dealing with Native Americans on the
plains?

• buffalo
• Walk the white mans road.
• Chivington Massacre
• Battle of Little Bighorn
• Dawes Act (1887)

• N.A. culture totally depended on it.
• Tried to make N.A. act like white settlers
• Native Americans slaughtered
• General Custer and his men were killed
• Attempted to make farmers out of N.A. - Very
  unsuccessful.

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What is a corporation?

• Business owned by investors who buy shares of
  stock.

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Key terms dealing with corporations?

• Capital
• Stock
• Stockholder
• dividend

• Money to invest
• Share in a corporation (partial ownership)
• Owner of stock (partial owner of a company)
• Payment to stockholder from a corporations profit

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So why do you invest in a corporation?

• To make money either through the price of your
  stock going up and then you sell it for a profit
  or through dividends.

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Key terms dealing with railroads?

• network
• consolidate
• rebates
• pool

• System of connected lines
• When companies combine
• Discounts to large customers
• Several railroad companies divide up business and
  agree to charge high rates

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What do we need to know about the steel industry?

• Leading company
• Leading individual
• Name of process for making cheap and strong steel

• U.S. Steel
• Andrew Carnegie
• Bessemer Process

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Important individuals in the rise of big business?

• J.P. Morgan
• Andrew Carnegie
• John D. Rockefeller
• Cornelius Vanderbilt

• Leading banker
• U.S. Steel (Steel Industry)
• Standard Oil (Oil Industry)
• Steamships and railroads

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What do Carnegie, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt all
have in common?

• Started as poor people
• Became filthy rich
• Gave away most of their profits to projects
  benefiting society

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Important terms for big business.

• Trust
• monopoly
• Free enterprise system

• Group of corporations run by a single board of
  directors.
• Company that controls all of an industry.
• Businesses that are owned by private citizens.
  Companies compete by making the nest products at
  the lowest price.

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Inventors and inventions you need to know

• Sleeping car
• telephone
• phonograph
• Light bulb
• Automated assembly line (allowed for mass
  production)

• George Pullman
• Alexander Graham Bell
• Thomas Edison
• Thomas Edison
• Henry Ford

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Knights of Labor

• Terence Powderly
• 1869-1886
• Very idealistic (create a perfect workplace all
  at once)
• Not for strikes
• Haymarket Riot brought about its end

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American Federation of Labor (AFL)

• Samuel Gompers
• 1886
• Union of skilled worker unions
• Baby steps to improve the workplace
• Supported strikes

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Labor terms you need to know

• strike
• injunction
• Scabs
• boycott

• Refusal to work
• Court order to go back to work
• Workers who replaced strikers (very unpopular)
• Refusal to buy a companys goods

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What was the importance of the Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory fire tragedy?

• It led to safer working conditions in factories.

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What factors made people leave their country and
become immigrants? (Push Factors)

• No land
• Religious persecution
• Political persecution
• No jobs

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What factors made people become immigrants to the
U. S.? (Pull Factors)

• Cheap / free land
• Religious freedom
• Political freedom - democracy
• Jobs in factories
• Family already established in the U.S.

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What are the theories of how immigrants
assimilated or blended in with the American
culture?

• Salad Bowl theory people adopted much of the
  American culture while maintaining their own
  traditions.
• Melting Pot Everyone adopted the exact same
  American culture.

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Anti-Immigrant terms you need to know

• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• Quota
• xenophobia

• Stopped Chinese immigration
• Set the number of immigrants that could enter the
  country from a specific nation favored Western
  European immigrants
• Fear of immigrants

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Anti-Immigrant groups you need to know

• Know-Nothing Party
• nativists

• Party against Catholic immigrants
• People against immigrants who they believed were
  taking their jobs

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