11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
collective
bargaining
right of workers to negotiate work
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
boom
economic and population upswing
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
Custer
lost battle of Little Big Horn
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
homesteading
when pioneers settle land
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
bust
economic downturn
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
reservation
where Indians were forced to live
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
16th President; freed slaves
Abraham Lincoln
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
labor unions
organization of workers
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
Sitting Bull
Sioux chief at Little Big Horn
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
secret ballot
private vote
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
petroleum
another name for oil
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
Andrew Carnegie
pioneer in steel industry
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
Transcontinental
Railroad
connected East and West Coast
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
Nat Love
African American cowboy
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
Andrew Johnson
impeached in 1867
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
black codes
laws that discriminate
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
skyscraper
tall buildings
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
Reconstruction
period when South was rebuilt
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
sharecropping
ex slaves rent farmland
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
prospector
person in search of gold
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
US military
ruled Southern states after the
Reconstruction plan was put forward
by the Radical Republicans in
Congress
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
Settlers who lived
on land for 5 years
This is who the Homestead Act gave
land to
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
Reason US wanted
Native Americans to
live on reservations
So settlers could use the land
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
Two main
immigrant groups
that worked the
railroad
Chinese and Irish
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
This is how many hours a day people
worked in mills and factories in the
late 1800’s
10 to 12
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
gold
This is what prospectors went out
West looking for
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
Promontory Point,
Utah
This is where the Transcontinental
Railroad was completed
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
sharecroppers
Workers who farmed land owned by
other people
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
John D. Rockefeller
Founded the first oil company
11.1, 11.2, and 11.3
farmers
Group the cattlemen had conflicts
with during the Range Wars