Lectures 49-51

The 1887 "Dawes Severalty Act" was designed to hasten the Indian's transformation into small-scale American farmers. All of the following made this transformation unlikely, if not impossible, except for the following:

Thefirsttranscontinental railroad, planned in the 1850s, but delayed by the Civil War, was built between 1866 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad Company, moving east from Sacramento, California, and by the Union Pacific Railroad, moving west from Omaha, Nebraska, both companies

Plains Indians, Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and others were hunters and gatherers whose way of life depended on

The Indian victory at Little Big Horn over General Custer was due to all of the following except:

In the late 19th century, the scale of American industry increased dramatically. John D. Rockefeller in the oil industry, and Andrew Carnegie in the

Edison invented all of the following except:

By 1890, all but the most perishable goods could literally be sold

Congress authorized the Union Pacific to build westward from the Missouri and the _______ _______to build eastward from Sacramento.

Along with iron and steel, a second vital commodity in American industrialization was:

America had in abundance all of materials needed to produce steel. These basic materials included all of the following except:

Some indian tribes had rituals that had their young men fast, and then pierce their flesh and muscles with stakes which would then be lifted high from the ground. These indians would then be weighted with skulls of their grandfathers or buffalo. The purpose of these rituals was to:

Carnegie's Gospel of Wealth (1889) argued for the social responsibilities of the rich. He founded a network of

When the two lines met at _________ _____, Utah, on May 10, 1869, transcontinental travel times diminished drastically, from three months to a week, and the telegraph contributed to railroad safety.

Railroads also facilitated commercial farmers' settlement of the Great Plains and the creation of nationwide

With the help of a generation of brilliant inventors, including Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell, and a succession of improvements in manufacturing, the United States had established itself as one of the three world leaders in industry by 1890, rivaling