2nd
9 weeks IMPORTANT PEOPLE, Events, & Places
Cumulative
List of S.S. Terms and Definitions
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WEEK 1
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Industrial Revolution
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Known
as the Technological Revolution, was a phase of the
larger Industrial Revolution
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Sometime
between 1840 and 1860 until World War I
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Examples-
Electricity, Automobiles, Airplanes
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Mechanization
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Using
machines to do work
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Examples:
reaper (machine that cuts grain) & threshing machine (separated the grain
from the plant stalks)
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Chattanooga, TN
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Site
of the World’s first Coca-Cola Bottling Company
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Transcontinental
Railroad
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A
railroad across the continent
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Union
Pacific began building
track west from Omaha, Nebraska
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Central
Pacific began building
track east from Sacramento, California
(C for Central and C for California)
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On
May 10, 1869, the tracks of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met at
Promontory Point, Utah Territory
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WEEK 2
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Protectionism
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Economic
policy of America during this time.
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Belief
that new industry in America needed to be protected against stronger, foreign
industry.
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Nativism
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Policy
to protect native-born people against immigrants
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During
this time: greatest number of European immigrants on east coast and Chinese
immigrants on west coast brought huge numbers of inexpensive labor.
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Settlers
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Person
who has migrated to an area and lived there.
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Many
people moved from east to west during Western Expansion
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Homestead Act
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Was
signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862.
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Anyone
who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed
slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family could file
an application to claim a federal land grant.
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WEEK 3
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Buffalo Soldiers
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Made
up of African American soldiers
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Protected
settlers as they moved west and to support the westward expansion by building
the infrastructure needed for new settlements to flourish
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George Jordan
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A former
slave from Nashville, TN
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A
Buffalo soldier
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Jordan
led his soldiers to hold back a force of more than 100 Indians.
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Jordan
and 19 of his men again held their ground while being attacked by a group of
Apaches.
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Great Plains
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Land
that lies west of Mississippi River and East of Rocky Mountains in United
States.
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Homestead
Act attracted many people to move to the Great Plains.
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Life
on the Great Plains was hard.
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Gilded Age
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From
the 1870s to about 1900.
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Term
was coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of
Today (1873)
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Meaning:
thin gold layer on top of major social problems
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WEEK 4
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Child Labor
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The
use of children to work in industry.
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Children
often had to work to help support their families.
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Children
were paid less money than adults.
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Samuel Gompers
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One
of the early labor union leaders in the U.S.
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A
labor union is where people work together to gain improved working
conditions.
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Formed
the American Federation of Labor
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American Federation of
Labor
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Founded
by Samuel Gompers
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Brought
many workers’ unions together to fight for:
1. better wages
2. an 8-hour work day
3. safer working conditions
4. end to child labor.
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Entrepreneurs
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A
person who starts a new business, hoping to make a profit.
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Example:
Sam Walden started Walmart
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Thomas Edison
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Inventor who helped change the world.
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He had over one-thousand inventions (1,093)
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He perfected the light-bulb
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t
work.”
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