farmers and railroad
• Railroad helped transport crops to other parts of the country more efficiently.
cattle drives
• 3,000 cattle
• 18 men
• chuck wagon and cook
• wranglers for the horses - 8/men
• 20-25 miles per day
Laissez-Faire type of government
• Government should leave business alone - H. Spencer.
• Was the largest deterrent to reform in the second half of the 19th century.
• Dominated in the New South.
• Helped by religious groups.
Tammany Hall
• Political machine: Boss Tweed Ring of New York.
minorities working on cattle drives
• Large amount were Hispanic or black.
Bessemer Process
• made steel stronger and produced it faster.
Why the cattle drive ended?
• overgrazing
• barbed wire
• water rights
• competition for land, sheep, and cattle
View of Plains Indians compared to whites?
• Plains Indians - nomadic
• whites - wanted to settle
American Federation of Labor
• 1881, Samuel Gompers
• skilled labor, organized - local,......
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