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Native Americans – largest and most important early western population group Buffalo – provided economic bases for the Plains Indians Transcontinental Railroad – encouraged settlement of the west because of access Homestead Act of 1862 – provided 160 acres for small fee if occupied and improved Timb...

Native Americans – largest and most important early western population group Buffalo – provided economic bases for the Plains Indians Transcontinental Railroad – encouraged settlement of the west because of access Homestead Act of 1862 – provided 160 acres for small fee if occupied and improved Timber Culture Act of 1873 – provided an additional 160 acres of 40 acres planted in trees Desert Land Act – provide 640 acres if owner agreed to irrigate within 3 years California gold rush 1849 Comstock Lode – discovered of silver Traveling Wild West shows – spread the culture of the cowboy Mark Twain – 19th century writer, author of Roughing It, Twain’s western experience Frederic Remington – 19th century painter and sculptor who captured the romance of the west Henry Bessemer – developed process for converting iron into durable steel William Kelly - developed the process for converting iron into durable steel Bessemer process – made mass production of steel possible Charles and Frank Duryea – built the first gasoline-driven motor vehicles in America Henry Ford – created the moving assembly line (mass production) in automobile plants Orville and Wilber Wright – constructed glided flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina Standardized time zones – created by railroads across continental U.S. to set travel schedules Andrew Carnegie – steel industrialist who controlled the process of steel production J. Pierpont Morgan – 19th century banker who created the U.S. Steel Corporation Gustavus Swift – make a small Chicago meatpacking company into a national corporation Isaac Singer – patented the sewing machine and created the Singer Company Horizontal Integration – combine a number of similar firms into a single corporation Vertical Integration – the takeover of different businesses a company relied on for primary functions John D. Rockefeller – created Standard Oil Monopoly-control of a market by a large corporation Frederick Law Olmstead- co-creator of Central Park in New York City Calvert Vaux- co-creator of Central Park in New York City Central Park – urban park created to look as little like a city as possible F.W. Woolworth– created the first national chain of dry good stores Montgomery Ward –created a distribution catalog of consumer goods for rural Americans Richard Sears– established Sears Roebuck Marshall Field– created of one of the first national department stores Florence Kelly– organized the National Consumers League National Consumers League– forced retailers and manufacturers to improve working conditions National College Athletic Association– created rules and equipment requirements to make sports safe James A. Naismith– invented basketball Charles Darwin– 19th century intellectualist who developed the theory of evolution