https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn en-us 2016-11-17 20:28:42 UTC 2025-08-23 04:39:10 UTC hello@padlet.com 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558267 A transcontinental railroad is a railroad that leads at different oceans or continental borders.The first communication revolution in the USA. The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built in the 1860s, linking the well developed railway network of the Eastern coast with rapidly growing California. The main line was officially completed on May 10, 1869.]]> 2016-11-17 20:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558267 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558360 Buffalo was the animal used for their skin. They had fur to use to keep warm, eat for food and etc.]]> 2016-11-17 20:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558360 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558401 Where native americans were forced to move when the whites found out there were gold under their land . ]]> 2016-11-17 20:32:33 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558401 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558443 Wounded Knee is located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota .It was the site of two conflicts between North American Indians and representatives of the U.S. government. An 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux.]]> 2016-11-17 20:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558443 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558477 Dawes Act of 1887 is a federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.]]> 2016-11-17 20:32:55 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558477 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558594 As companies start to prosper, the workers began to form Labor Unions. Labor unions strived to improve woeking conditions and benefits for the workers . 
Historical Significance: Owners of large corporations opposed the formation of labor unions. ]]> 2016-11-17 20:33:25 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558594 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558659 large-scale or important financial or commercial activity.]]> 2016-11-17 20:33:35 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558659 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558751 an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.]]> 2016-11-17 20:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558751 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558812 Business of industry.]]> 2016-11-17 20:34:07 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558812 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558851 lacking in a particular quality or value.]]> 2016-11-17 20:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558851 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558915 Businessmen / bankers who dominated industries and built up huge fortunes.]]> 2016-11-17 20:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558915 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558979 captain of industry was a business leader. Increased productivity, expansion of markets, providing more jobs, or acts of philanthropy.]]> 2016-11-17 20:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138558979 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138559161 social theory that attempts to adapt Charles Darwin's natural selection principles and apply it to society.]]> 2016-11-17 20:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138559161 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138559209 A company takes over or buys out a competitor in an effort to gain market share.
Historical SIgnificance: When a single company achieves control of an entire market, it becomes a monopoly.]]> 2016-11-17 20:35:46 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138559209 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138559313 When a company owns all of the different businesses on which it depends for its operation.
Historical Significance: Instead of paying other businesses for their services, they own all aspects of production and delivery.]]> 2016-11-17 20:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138559313 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138559971 Strikes are the primary tools that labor unions use to get what they want. 
Historical Significance: Employers used many tools to break strikes like Lockouts, Scabs, Yellow dog contracts, Blacklists and Pinkertons.]]> 2016-11-17 20:38:53 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138559971 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138560074 Unions provided workers with Safer conditions, Higher pay, and Legal protection. 
Historical SIgnificance: Businesses doesn't like unions because employers have a little flexiblity and a decline in the value of merit.]]> 2016-11-17 20:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138560074 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138560106 Scabs are workers that are hired to replace striker workers]]> 2016-11-17 20:39:14 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138560106 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138560150 The working conditions were very harsh. They would work 14+ hours a day, 6 days a week with little to no breaks. Factories were dark and dangerous, many were killed or injuried. There was no job security and Women and children were employed in beccasue they were the cheapest source of labor.]]> 2016-11-17 20:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138560150 10083978 https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138560242 The use of children in industry or business, especially when illegal or considered inhumane.
Historical Significance: Employers used children to get in the small tight spaces, Once the children get a certain age, they child would have drop out of school and start to work to help in the house. ]]> 2016-11-17 20:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/10083978/ulqy80z3pzwn/wish/138560242