chapter 16-18 Flashcards
(23 cards)
who made the stockyards?
mccoy
who made the hull house?
addams
who made laisse faire?
smith
who made the transatlantic cable?
fields
who’s name was mark twain?
Clemons
who made the voting machine?
edison
the gilded age was also known as what?
the 2nd industrial revolution
who defeated custer at his last stand?
crazy horse & sitting bull
what the national grange movement want to do?
educate farmers
what did blues music represent?
pain
visitors to chicago experienced what?
a gray city
what was the nation’s first big business?
railroads
what % of married women worked?
5%
who did the first football game involve?
princeton & rutgers
who wrote call of the wild?
jack london
the middle class was made up of what type of workers?
white collar workers
what was the first newspaper to exceed a million in circulation?
the new york world
how many acres of land did the Homestead Act Provide?
160
what was the most important innovation of the railroads?
stockholders
who were the birds of passage?
young men who got jobs to get money until they could go home
what was the haymarket bombing?
there was a strike & someone threw a bomb, it killed 7 police & then 7-10 more people were killed for being accused of killing the police
what 3 things did buffalo provide for the indians?
food
clothing
shelter
