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29 Cards in this Set
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granted 160 acres for a fee and guarantee to live on it and farm for 5 years
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Homestead Act
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a person who recieved land on which to build a house and farm
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homesteader
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an African American who moved to the Great Plains in the late 1800s
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Exoduster
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public land set aside for special use, as for Native Americans
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reservation
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Act passed by Congress that gave 160 acres of reservation land to Native Americans and forced Native Americans to assimliate to U.S. culture
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Dawes Act
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battle that saw the end of the Native American resistance to expansion into the West
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Battle of Little Bighorn
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a method for producing a stronger type of steel
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Bessemer Process
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when a company has comlete control of a market
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monopoly
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a loose association of businesses that made some product
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cartel
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group of separate companies that are under control of a single managing board
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trust
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a large company usually formed by a group of investors
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corporation
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talks between a union and an employer about working conditions
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collective bargaining
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industrialists who made their fortune by taking advantage of the american public
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robber baron
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industrialist who expanded the market, created jobs, and funded public projects
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captain of industry
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Union made up of skilled workers who used collective bargaining and strikes to achieve goals
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American Federation of Labor
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economic and political philosophy that favors public control of property and income, not private control.
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socialism
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negative term for a worker called in by an employer to replace striking laborers
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scab
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riot and strike in which led to the general association of unions with violence and radical ideas
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Haymarket Riot
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unsuccessful strike in PA that led to the deaths of many union members by Pinkertons
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Homestead Strike
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Strike involving railroad industry that led to the federal government sending troops to end strike
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Pullman Strike
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technique of farming that involves planting crops that do not require a great deal of water
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dry farming
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idea in business that the the government shouldn't get involved and allow "survival of the fittest"
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social darwinism
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periodic growth and contraction of a nation's economy
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business cycle
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Law passed in 1890 that outlawed any combination of companies that restrained trade or commerce
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Sherman Antitrust Act
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Industrialist who found his fortune in the steel industry
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Andrew Carnegie
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Indstrialist who found his fortune in the oil industry
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John Rockefeller
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railway that stretched from Nebraska to California linking both coasts
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Transcontinental Railroad
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list that is ciculated amoung employers, containing names of persons who should not be hired
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blacklist
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first law that established an organziation to regulate interstate commerce
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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