- policy establishing land grant colleges offering agricultural and engineering programs
- policy that provided land grants to railroad companies to build track into western regions
- largest silver strike in Nevada spurred migration of miners in 1860s-1870s
- destination for cattle as a thriving meat-packing industry developed
- central to Plains Indians survival this animal was hunted to near extinction to better control native populations
- policy offering free farm land encouraged settlement in the West
- policy to assimilate Indians into white society by depriving Indians of native lands, placing them on 160 acre homesteads, and sending Indian children to government boarding schools with this 1887 legislation
- What company had to give Ford their permission before Ford could build his car and why?
- wrote A Century of Dishonor a protest to the ill treatment of Indians
- What does Morgan do to help the United States government?
- houses built because of the lack of trees in the plains
- Who does Rockefeller compare his company with as a defense in court?
- Who does the working class public put their trust in to take on powerful business leaders like Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan?
- method of transportation most important to western movement and establishment of new markets
- What new politician's attention is captured by Rockefeller, Morgan, and Carnegie?
- moving cattle from the open range of the Southern Plains to rail lines Central Plains to meet a growing demand for beef
- major battle and rare Indian victory over Colonel George A. Custer's regiment "Custer's Last Stand"
- In 1890 South Dakota in the last major confrontation between whites and the Native Americans in the west 225 Sioux men, women, and children were killed by federal troops
- Nez Perce Chief appealed to the US government in his lament speech
- ritual calling upon spirits to empower the natives in an attempt to defy assimilation of the Dawes Severalty Act