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Andrew Carnegie- Second richest man next to Rockefeller. Immigrated from Scotland lived to be 83... Carnegie steal company... merged with a whole bunch of companies...
Native Americans in the late 1800's- Everyone was moving to the west onto Indian territories... so the Indians were moved onto reservations... people kept killing off the buffalo... after the homestead act people began putting up fences claiming land.
Standard oil company- took him 12 years to take over all of the other oil companies... they would buy all of the oil ingredients so no one else could make it. They eventually broke up into 34 smaller companies.
American Mafia- Started in Italy. Organized mob gang. "Gangsters." Gambling, prostitution, drinking. Originally hated drugs then saw the money it makes so they started selling them.
Grover Cleveland- First democrat that was actually elected... wanted to lower tariffs. Tried to run again against Harrison lost then ran again and won. He wanted to help the common people out.
Rockefeller- John Davidson Rockefeller born in 1839-1937 98 years old. Born in NYC. Richest man in the word at the time.
History of barbed wire- They needed some way to keep the cattle on their land since there weren't many trees around to make wood fences... sort of "killed" off the cowboys...
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