US History 1865-1915

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The oil industry was controlled by ________ during the Gilded Age.

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Rockefeller

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Who were the "robber barons" of the Gilded Age?

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Wealthy industrialists accused of exploiting workers and corrupting politics

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The inventor of the telephone in 1876 was

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Who founded the biggest steel corporation in the US during the period 1865-1900?

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Andrew Carnegie

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The first railroad to span the American continent, completed in 1869 in Promontory Point, Utah.

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Transcontinental Railroad

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Nickname given to the miners who went West looking to get rich at the start of the California Gold Rush.

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49ers

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The 1862 federal law that granted tracts of land to western settlers who agreed to work the land and live on it for five years.

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Homestead Act

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The turning point battle in the West where the US 7th Cavalry, led by Gen. George A Custer, were defeated by the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho.

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Little Bighorn

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The 1890 Indian War battle that killed 150-200 Lakota, including Sitting Bull, and was the climax of the US Army's effort to repress the Plains Indians.

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Wounded Knee Massacre

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Lakota leader at the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn. Eventually settled at Standing Rock Reservation. Performed with Buffalo Bill Cody in Cody's Wild West Shows. Killed by reservation police in 1890 at the beginning of the action at Wounded Knee.

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Sitting Bull