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

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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