Unit 1 Vocabulary Terms Grade 8 (Chapters 1-3)

UNIT 1 VOCABULARY

CHAPTER 1

1. Frontier
2. Comstock Lode
3. boomtowns
4. Cattle Kingdom
5. cattle drive
6. Chisholm Trail
7. Pony Express
8. transcontinental railroad
9. Treaty of Fort Laramie
10. reservations
11. Crazy Horse
12. Treaty of Medicine Lodge
13. buffalo soldiers
14. George Armstrong Custer
15. Sitting Bull
16. Battle at the Little Bighorn
17. Massacre at Wounded Knee
18. Long Walk
19. Geronimo
20. Ghost Dance
21. Sarah Winnemucca
22. Dawes General Allotment Act
23. Homestead Act
24. Morrill act
25. Exodusters
26. sodbusters
27. dry farming
28. Annie Bidwell
29. National Grange
30. deflation
31. William Jennings Bryan
32. Populist Party
33. establish
34. facilitate

CHAPTER 2

1. Second Industrial Revolution
2. Bessemer Process
3. Thomas Edison
4. patents
5. Alexander Graham Bell
6. Henry Ford
7. Wilbur Wright
8. Orville Wright
9. corporations
10. Andrew Carnegie
11. vertical integration
12. John D. Rockefeller
13. horizontal integration
14. trust
15. Leland Stanford
16. social Darwinism
17. monopoly
18. Sherman Antitrust Act
19. Frederick W. Taylor
20. Knights of Labor
21. Terence V. Powderly
22. American Federation of Labor
23. Samuel Gompers
24. collective bargaining
25. Mary Harris Jones
26. Haymarket Riot
27. Homestead strike
28. Pullman strike
29. implement
30. acquire

CHAPTER 3

1. old immigrants
2. new immigrants
3. steerage
4. benevolent societies
5. tenements
6. sweatshops
7. Chinese Exclusion Act
8. mass transit
9. suburbs
10. mass culture
11. Joseph Pulitzer
12. William Randolph Hearst
13. department stores
14. Frederick Law Olmsted
15. Jacob Riis
16. settlement houses
17. Jane Addams
18. Hull House
19. Florence Kelley
20. advocate
21. factor