Unit 7

  • Andrew Carnegie

    Scottish-American industrialist who led the expansion of the American steel industry
    Key concept- Progress- changing by expanding the steel industry
  • J.P. Morgan

    An American financier and banker
    Key concept- Progress- because it changed things by him being a financier and banker
  • John D Rockefeller

    He was an American oil industry business magnate and philanthropist
    Key concept- Progress- Things were changed by the American oil industry
  • Boomtowns

    A community that has sudden rapid population such as economic growth or towns started from scratch
    Key concepts- Progress- everything grows greatly economically
  • Bessemer process

    It was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel
    Key concept- Progress- Changing by being the first inexpensive industrial process
  • Sod house

    A successor to the login cabin during frontier settlement
    Key concept- Movement- Changing and moving to the sod house instead of log cabin
  • Morrill land grant act

    They are US statutes that allowed for the creation of land grant colleges
    Key concept- Progress- Things changed by the creation of higher education
  • Sand Creek massacre

    A massacre in the American Indian wars where a 675-man force of Colorado US volunteer attacked and destroyed a village
    Key concept- Conflict- It was a crisis because of the attack and the village that was destroyed
  • Gilded age

    It was an era or rapid economic growth
    Key concept- Progress- at the time things were changing by the economic growth
  • Battle of little big horn

    Custer fought against the tribe that he thought was smaller than it actually was but it was a bunch of them and he failed
    Key concepts- Conflict- There was argument where he fought against them and failed
  • Dumbbell Tenements

    Tenements built in NYC after the Tenement house act of 1879
    Key concept- Progress- they built tenements because it was dark and poorly ventilated
  • Chinese exclusion act

    A law signed prohibiting all immigration of Chinese labourers.
    Key concept- Conflict- Because it was a very big disagreement between white Americans and the chinese
  • dawes severalty act

    An act that authorized the president of the US to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments
    Key concept- Progress- The president made tribal land divided into allotments
  • Oklahoma land rush

    It was the first land rush into the unassigned lands
    Key concepts- Movement- the unassigned land was the best public land and everyone wanted it
  • Open range system

    Its where cattle roam free
    Key concept- American dream- regardless on land owner ship the cattle still got to roam where ever
  • Wounded knee

    A massacre that was near wounded knee creek.
    Key concept- Conflict- It was a crisis where lots of men, women and children got killed
  • Homestead strike

    It was an industrial lockout and strike
    Key concept- Conflict- The event was a huge crisis
  • Pullman Strike

    It was a railroad strike and a turning point for US labour law.
    Key concept- Conflict- It was a notional crisis where it shut down nations freight and passenger traffic
  • Ellis island

    The gateway location for millions of immigrants to the US
    Key concept- American dream- Because it was a place to non Americans to go to and by them going there they get out of where they didn't want to be and they get to live their lives better.
  • Woman's suffrage

    It is the right for women to vote in elections
    Key concept- American dream- because it shows the fight for the right women wanted to have voting rights