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American armies killed between 150 and 300 Native Americans in South Dakota. It ended the US Indian War.
A million and a half member of farmers who proposes higher prices for their product and less prices for the things they buy. For example, machinery should be affordable for farmers so that they can farm at high speed without having to spend lots of money on machinery.
Wovoka was a Native American who came up with his own theory of the ____. It was a dance for people’s ancestors to rise from the dead and for white people, who lived in the West, to disappear. His reason for this theory was because he claimed he went to heaven and returned back earth.
They traveled to west to escape religious prosecution. They believed in polygamy, they moved to many places until settled in Brigham Young after the death of their leader, Joseph Smith.
a person who gains an extreme amount of wealth by ruthless means and questionable tactics. In the late nineteenth century, many business owners gained vast amounts of wealth by means of exploitation.
William Frederick Cody gained his nickname for killing 4,280 buffalo in eight months to feed the Union Pacific Railroad workers.
In the early 1880s, the Knights of Labor was a union membership that had a great success with its acceptance of all laborers, which included women. In 1886, with their 700,000+ members, the Knights mainly focused on organizations of workers into local unions in order to get practical gains.
A theory that all societies were in a constant competitive struggle to rise to the top. “The survival of the fittest,” as Darwin had coined, was the term individuals used to identify with in the competition of businesses. Only the fittest were said to be the ones who would survive in the business world.
A labor union in the U.S. who had an alternative, more conservative view than the Knights of Labor, a national labor association. They promoted “pure and simple trade unionism” and simple gains, all while avoiding strikes to keep peace.
a place built for the people who visited from all around the world, these were people who would pass by and stay to rest
A controlling civil group that is brought from a population to take control of others. They were involved with killing and wounding many people during the strikes in the Pennsylvania in 1877.
Workers and Unions gathered in Chicago to protest unfair working conditions and the implementation of an eight hour working day. During the protest a bomb went off and killed protesters and policeman. The death of the cops sparked national outcry.
This law allowed male citizens to obtain land in the west only if they will improve the land by plowing fields, building houses and barns, or digging wells.

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