FIP USH Unit 6 Vocab Part ALL

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Encouraged the settlement of the Great Plains by essentially giving away large tracts of land.

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Homestead Act

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Chief of the Lakota tribe in the Dakota Territory, Led victory against General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn

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Sitting Bull

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Slaughter of 300 unarmed Natives by the US Army; ended the Indian Wars

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Wounded Knee

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Inventor: light bulb, phonograph, time clock

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Thomas Edison

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Invented the telephone

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Alexander Graham Bell

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Founder of US Steel. He used vertical consolidation to dominate the steel industry

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Andrew Carnegie

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When one company has complete control of a product or service

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Monopolies

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Alliance of trade & craft unions; formed in 1886.  The first successful large labor union.

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American Federation of Labor

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 Located in NY Harbor; port where European immigrants were processed

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Ellis Island

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 Immigration processing center in San Francisco.  Millions of Asian immigrants were processed here.

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Angel Island