ch.5 6 u-spp

Ch. 5-6

• Moving West and the Industrial Revolution

Longhorn Steer

Open Range

Buffalo Uses

• KIDS Only? - Fun Stuff To Do - How Many Ways Can You Use a Buffalo?

• 1800- 15 million buffalo

• 1870- 1,000

• 2000- 260,000

Famous Indian War Battles

• Sand Creek Massacre-1864

• Battle of the Hundred Slain(Fetterman Massacre)-1866

• Red River War-1874-75

• Battle of Little Bighorn(Custer’s Last Stand)-1876

• Battle of Wounded Knee-1890-last major skirmish between NA and US Army

George Custer

Sitting Bull

Crazy Horse

Chief Gall

Homestead Act

• Gave 160 acres of land to people to live on and farm

• Attracted thousands of people to the midwest

• Land speculators “stole” much of the land that was set aside for the Homestead Act

Struggles on the Great Plains

• Life on the Great Plains was not easy

• Lonely

• Bad weather

• Hard work

• Native Americans

Populist Movement

• Help farmers out of debt• Give people a greater voice in government• Increase money supply in circulation• Graduated income tax• Federal loan program• Direct election of Senators• Single terms for president/v.p.• Secret ballot• 8 hour work day• Restrictions on immigration

What helped the Industrial Revolution to take place?

• Tons of natural resources

• Government helped business

• Cities were growing

• Immigrants provided cheap labor

• Growing population provided markets for manufactured goods

• Oil boom

• Bessemer Process-cheap way to make steel

Henry Bessemer

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What helped the Industrial Revolution to take place?

• Electricity-light bulb-Edison

• Typewriter• Telephone-Bell

Transcontinental RR

Interstate Commerce Act

• Allowed the US Government to supervise railroads

• Set up Interstate Commerce Commision to carry out law

• Failed to help farmers

Andrew Carnegie

Horizontal and Vertical Integration

• Monopoly-Define

• Trust-Define

• Page 242

John D. Rockefeller

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states

• What is a “trust”?

Charles Darwin

Craft Unions vs. Industrial Unions

• What are the differences between these?

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Terrence Powderly

• Leader of the Kights of

Labor

* Allowed all workers in

American Federation of Labor

• Broken into “craft unions”

• Led by Samuel Gompers