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Battle between Sitting Bull and Custer? . Little Bighorn. Describe assimilation. In this plan, Native Americans would give up their beliefs and culture and become part of the white culture. . The act broke up reservations and gave some of the land to each Native American family for farming. .
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In this plan, Native Americans would give up their beliefs and culture and become part of the white culture.
The act broke up reservations and gave some of the land to each Native American family for farming.
Name two railroad companies that built the Transcontinental Railroad.
Under this law, the government offered 160 acres of free land to anyone who would farm it for five years.
African Americans who moved from the post Reconstruction South to Kansas.
direct election of senators and a secret ballot to stop cheating in voting.
This man perfected an early light bulb in Menlo Park, New Jersey?
It was mainly these two groups who built the railroads across America?
Court declared that government could regulate private industries in order to protect the public interest.
It set guidelines for how railroad companies were to conduct their business.
He used vertical integration in an attempt to control the steel industry.
The process of buying companies that supply raw materials and companies that transport them.
This theory said that “natural selection” enabled the best suited people to survive and succeed. It supported the ideas of competition, hard work, and responsibility.
exclusive control of a commodity or service in a particular market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of prices.
He used the Standard Oil trust to almost completely control the oil industry. His ruthless business practices earned him huge profits, but caused people to label him a robber baron.
a ruthlessly powerful U.S. capitalist or industrialist of the late 19th century considered to have become wealthy by exploiting natural resources, corrupting legislators, or other unethical means.