How did the us gov. deal with Native Americans?
they broke there promises and were given small pieces of land
we went to war against them and killed many of them
assimilation- trying to make native americans like the white man.
Dawes act- 160 acres of land to NA to farm. PROBLEM- they were being forced to farm the way white man did. they didn't believe you could own the land. White man found loop holes in the law and within ten years had taken a lot of the land back.
open range- no fences to contain anything
cowboy era only lasted about 20 yrs.
undeclared war between cattle ranchers, sheep hearders, and farmers.
Inventions and how they changes lives.
Thomas Edison "wizard of Menlo Park"
more of an inprover than an inventor.
phonograph earned his fame- able to record and play back music.
improved the light bulb
improved the relegraph system
built first commercial power station
electric companies grew and were installed all over nation
invented first motion picture camera and his first movie was of an employee sneezing
CHRISTOPHER SHOLES
invented the type write and edison helped him improve it
patented in 1868
keys got jammed a lot so they rearranged the letters using the QWERTY system
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL
invented and patented the telephone
invented photograph-transmission= fiber optics
How lives changed
we used telephone and electricty everyday
type writer led to the computer
mass printing
microphones and other sound based tech. stemed from the phonograph and telephone.
Impact of the railroads and what did the gov. do to help regulate them
railroad expansion.
bsuiness need better ways to get place,
the first transcontinental railroad May 10 1869
lots of imigrant workers that were desperate chinese-
workers had to watch out for native american attacks
each town ran on own time, from maine to cali=20 time zones
us divided up into 4 time zones
congress didn't recognize it until 1918
time zones were pushed for but the railroads.
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