Chapter 8 – “Settling the West” – p. 284 – 305
Chapter 9 – “Industrialization” – p. 306 – 333
Terms and People
Open range
Mavericks
Barbed wire
Dry-farming
Time zone
Laissez-faire
Vertical integration
Horizontal integration
Monopoly
Bonanza farm
Assimilate
Long drive
Wheat Belt
Thaddeus Lowe
George Custer
Grenville Dodge
Cornelius Vanderbilt
John D. Rockefeller
Robber Barron
Andrew Carnegie
Strikebreakers
Nativism
Haymarket Riot
Themes and Concepts
Growth of Mining and Ranching
- Boom and Bust
Relationship between settlers and Native Americans
- Reservations vs. Assimilation
- Dawes Act
New Inventions – Steel plow, telephone, light bulb, refrigerated rail car
Role of Railroads in Growth
Industrialization
Big Business – Advantages and Disadvantages
Workers – Industry and Railroad
- What did unions want?
Why did people want to move west?
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