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A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production, and distribution are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand.

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officially Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, was the largest and one of the most important American labor organizations of the 1880s. Its most important leaders were Terence V. Powderly and step-brother Joseph Bath.

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florida wildlife and wetland

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businesses expanding and buying out competitors

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The Pullman Strike was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States on May 11, 1894, and a turning point for US labor law.

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the development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale.

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founder of the Ford Motor Company

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advances in modern sciences and technology

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a steel-making process, now largely superseded, in which carbon, silicon, and other impurities are removed from molten pig iron by oxidation in a blast of air in a special tilting retort

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men and women who innovated american and international life

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passed by the U.S. Congress to supplant the Bland-Allison Act of 1878. It not only required the U.S. government to purchase nearly twice as much silver as before, but also added substantially to the amount of money already in circulation.

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a track or set of tracks made of steel rails along which passenger and freight trains run.

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support for the concerns of ordinary people.

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several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead," at no cost. In all, more than 270 million acres of public land, or nearly 10% of the total area of the U.S., was given away free to 1.6 million homesteaders; most of the homesteads were west of the Mississippi River.

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series of laws passed in several midwestern states of the United States, namely Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois, in the late 1860s and early 1870s.

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organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished in 1875.

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The Cross of Gold speech was delivered by William Jennings Bryan, a former United States Representative from Nebraska, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on July 9, 1896.

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agricultural surplus (plural agricultural surpluses) An agricultural production that exceeds the needs of the society for which it is being produced, and may be exported or stored for future times.

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allowed for the President to break up reservation land, which was held in common by the members of a tribe

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Former U.S. president Thomas Jefferson believed that the nation's future depended on its westward expansion. In 1803 the Louisiana Purchase took place, doubling the size of the country. By 1840 almost 7 million Americans had migrated westwardin hopes of securing land and being prosperous.

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The reservations were devised to encourage the Indians to live within clearly defined zones, and the U.S. promised to provide food, goods and money and to protect them from attack by other tribes and white settlers.

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he Radical Republicans were a faction of American politicians within the Republican Party of the United States from around 1854 (before the American Civil War) until the end of Reconstruction in 1877.

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whites that helped or liked blacks

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military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate littoral, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.

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In his eulogy on the slain president, he called the Gettysburg Address a " monumental act."

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The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.

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a decisive battle in the American Civil War

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the rights and powers held by individual US states rather than by the federal government.

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FREEPORT DOCTRINE was Stephen Douglas's doctrine that, in spite of the Dred Scott decision, slavery could be excluded from territories of the United States by local legislation.

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allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.

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On this day in 1857, the United States Supreme Court issues a decision in the Dred Scott case, affirming the right of slave owners to take their slaves into the Western territories, therebynegating the doctrine of popular sovereignty and severely undermining the platform of the newly created Republican Party.