5-1 The US made many deals with Native Americans, but broke deals a whole lot. US also went to war with the Native Americans. Assimilation was trying to make the Natives like the white man. They tried to make the Natives live like the Americans. The Dawes Act gave 160 acres to Native Americans to farm, but they didn't know about owning land. Most of the land given to them was taken by whites. So the Act pretty much failed. Farmers would put up fences everywhere and so that and the railroads being built ended the open range.
6-1 Thomas Edison improved more than he invented. He invented the electric vote recorder, but nobody liked it. He also invented the phonograph which was like a really really really old tape recorder. He improved the lightbulb. The first commercial power station was built by Edison, as was the Kinetoscope which was a video camera that sucked. Thomas Edison has a record of over a thousand patents. Christopher Sholes invented the typewriter in 1868. Telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, and he created a radar for locating icebergs in the ocean.
6-2 Central Pacific used Chinese workers, and Union Pacific used Irish and vets. Whites earned about 40 dollars a month, 10 hr days, and had meals included. Chinese worked dawn to dusk and earned 35 dollhairs a month with no meals. The earth was divided into 24 time zones.
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