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Speculators

Sold land for profit
Oklahoma

Last major Landrush
Where did most of the goods come from

West
What was the morril land-grant

Chinese immigrants were building track on one side and Irish Immigrants were building tracks on the other side. And the more tracks they laid out the more land they were granted
From Asked for (railroads)

More land to build more tracks
From the E to the W was the ____

Union
California was the

Central
San ford

Leader of the California railway
Chinese

the Central Pacific
A prospector in 1859 soled claim near Virginia city

Henry comstock
Rapidly growing towns

Boomtowns
Self-appointed volunteers to punish people

Vigilance committee
Abandoned towns where people vanish because of miners and resources

Ghost towns
Shoveling loose dirt into boxes a running water over

Placer mining
Method of mining that ppl in west industrialized with

Hydraulic mining
Breed of cattle the drive on dry conditions

Longhorn
how did businesses become big

Selling stock
Vast areas of grass land owned by the government

Open Range
Driving cartels in long distances

Long drive
Start to Mississippi River with the wheat belt and no timber

Great Plains
120 acres of land for $10

Homestead act
Dryland farming where they planted plants deep in the ground with moisture

Dry farming
Great Plains farmers

Sodbusters
Area in the eastern edge of the Great Plains. Which they named after the cash crop

Wheat belt
Large high profitable wheat farm

Bonanza farming
People who went to Claim land as the cannon bone

Boomers
People that left before the Canon went boom

Sooners
Overcoming of front tier and the argument that the frontier was the new start Drive

Turner thesis
Total value of goods produced

Gross National product
Drilled the first oil well inTutsville Pennsylvania

Edwin Drake
Invented the telephone and organize telephone company

Alexander Graham Bell
Invented the lightbulb ,phonograph ,elelectric generator ,battery, Motion pictures, dictamone

Thomas Edison
Let people do is they choose where the government had no interference in economy

Laissez-faire
People who risk capital to organize business

Entrepreneurs
Increase tariff rates and helped industrial workers to adopt rapid growth by limiting competition

Morril tariff
In 1862 Lincoln signs the Pacific Railway act and wanted it to run through the United States

Transcontinental railroad
Construction of transcontinental railroad

Pacific Railway act
Led the Union Pacific and used to be an officer in the union army

Greenville Dodge
1/4 who ran the Central Pacific Railroad Company

Leland Stanford
Consolidator who merged rails Who was a successful railroad entrepreneur

Cornelius Vanderbilt
Country was divided into this

Time zones
Free land given by the government

Land-grant
Construction company set up by stockholders

Credit mobilier
Built and operated great Northern railroad

James J. Hill
Big businesses working together

Corporation
Investments to make profit

Stock
Reduction in cost of goods by increased production at given facility

Economies of scale
Alliance And groups sharing in some activity

Pools
Born in Scotland, businessman who revolutionized steel industry and profit

Andrew Carnegie
Vertical integration=

Carnegie
Horizontal integration=

Rockefeller
Combining of many firms engaged in some business or corporation

Vertical or horizontal integration
Crated new process of making steel cheaply and efficiently

Henry Bessemer
Completed oil industry

John D Rockefeller
Total control of a type of industry by 1company or one person

Monopoly
Combination of firms by legal agreement to reduce competition

Trust
Prevent buying Out businesses/Company who owned and shared stock

Holding company
Idea that wealthy people should give back

Gospel of wealth
Banking investment=

Gospel of wealth
Organization of some workers with the same trade or skill

Trade unions
Department stores like

Macy
Chain stores like

All the other stores around
Organization of common laborers and craftworkers

Industrial unions
Working together negotiating for a common agreement

Collective bargaining
People put on this list to be punished and boycott and not to get rehired

Blacklist
Company tactic to fight bag union

Lockouts
Advocated overthrowing government
- Karl Marks
- Marxism
Person who believes laws and government are unnecessary

Anarchist
Cut wages lead to workers striking and blocking tracks

Great railroad strike
Organization union who advocated end of child labor eight hour workday and working on factor

Knights of labor
Bringing in third-party and settling the problem through impartial outsider

Arbitration
May 1 nationwide strike 100 dead 70 officers injured
End of Knights of labor

Haymarket riot
Carnegie Magee cut wages by 20% off wages and use Pinkertons to hire scabs and called the military

Homestead strike
Luxury car company that laid out and slashed wages am boycott people

Pull man strike
People easily replaced

Scabs
Court order one one is required to refrain from doing an act

injunction
Leader of the American Federation of labor 1886

Samuel Gompers
dominate union with skilled workers

American Federation of labor
Group of skilled and unskilled workers

IWW
Agreement which company hires only union members

Closed shops
Capitalist

Own workers
Founded the Knights of labor in 1869

Terrence Powderly
included women and African-Americans in his union

Knights of labor declined influence
Allowed all workers including women immigrants and African-Americans

Industrial workers of the world declined but still exist
Included women trade unionist

Women's trade Union league also declined and dissolved
Included skilled workers and skilled white men

AFL who still remains
Flatland

Union Pacific
Mountains

Central Pacific
Limited liability

Like stocks not responsible for a big problem and only responsible for investment
Unlimited liability

Limited responsibility
Corporations stopped

Risk

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History Midterm

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History

Updated

2016-09-28T03:57:18Z

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