post civil war
Across
- 1. what kind of factor was it that farmland was becoming scarce in the east making them want to travel west?
- 6. What was the filament made out of that edison could use in the lightbulb.
- 7. What was implemented in the U.S. around the same time as the railroads>
- 10. What's the last name of the guy who made the advances in communication?
- 12. an attempt to turn indians into the rest of society by educating and clothing them.
- 13. What kind of railway did the U.S. decide to have?
- 16. What did they call it when custer tried to round up 2000 indians with 200 soldiers?
- 17. When a company is in complete control of a product.
- 19. People seen as captains of their industry because of them creating jobs.
- 21. Federal land set aside for indians usually not very nice land.
- 22. What did the brooklyn bridge prove to other countries that america had?
- 26. The Massacre when the cheyenne leader and colorado's made a treaty for him to move his people but John Chivington took this as his chance for a victory killing 500 indians mostly women and children.
- 27. What was the process called to burn the impurities out of steel?
- 28. People who bought up large amounts of land in hope of a higher resale value.
- 29. what was the old railroads made out of?
Down
- 2. A philosophy that suggested a government ownership of businesses and equal distribution of wealth created by those businesses.
- 3. People that tried to take advantage of the Oklahoma land and went in before others to claim more as their own.
- 4. What was the camp called that soldiers killed over 200 mostly unarmed indians because the indians rituals scared them and made them think they would revolt.
- 5. People that legally raced into Oklahoma to claim parcels of land as their own.
- 8. What kind of factor is it called to want to go west for Gold and wealth?
- 9. They did not understand the the idea of owning land and didn't waste any natural resources.
- 11. How long did eddison think it would be between each major invention.
- 14. what year did Alexander Graham Bell invent talking telegram?
- 15. How many days did edison think it would take for him to turn out a small invention.
- 18. a market structure where only a few large profitable companies control most of production of a certain product.
- 19. People who were in america before america began
- 20. Land that was measured registered and deeded so you knew exactly what you owned.
- 23. What's the first name of the man they called "the great inventor".
- 24. What did they change the railroads to?
- 25. What's the last name of the person who invented the central power sources providing electricity for many people?