9. Transcontinental Railroad/Gilded Age Vocab

Crossed the entire nation, connecting east to west:

• major highways

• transcontinental railroad

• wagon trains

People who moved to the US to help work on the railroad. They faced much racism & harassment.

• Chinese immigrants

• Native prisoners

• African slaves

Example of Native Americans living on the Great Plains. They were forced off their land as white settlers moved west.

• Cherokee

• Creek

• Sioux

A Sioux Indian who became an important native American leader:

• Crazy Horse

• Sacagawea

• Sitting Bull

A massacre of Sioux Indians; native American resistance ended after this:

• Battle of Little Big Horn

• Wounded Knee Massacre

• Great Massacre

Important American inventor; light bulb

• John Crawford

• Frederick Douglass

• Thomas Edison

American inventor who invented the telephone:

• Thomas Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Eli Whitney

Founder of Standard Oil Company, which owned a monopoly of the oil industry:

• John D. Rockefeller

• Booker T. Washington

• Andrew Carnegie

Important businessman who created a monopoly in the steel industry:

• John D. Rockefeller

• George Vanderbilt

• Andrew Carnegie

When one company controls an entire industry; there is no competition:

• Oligopoly

• Monopoly

• Oligrachy