HIS 142 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Tpp Nikola Tesla, John Wesley Powell, Thomas Edison
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America"s gilded age (1870- 1890: statue of liberty, october 28th 1886 dedication of liberty enlightening the world, edouard de laboulaye created it c. In response to lincoln assassination: 150 feet tall, stood as a symbol of friendship between the french and the u. s. and freedom. Canada,etc: 1860, the middle boarder"s population (minn. , dakotas, nebraska, and. Kansas) rose from 300,000 to 5 million in 1900: farming in great plains difficult, snakes, drought. While men worked on cash crop: loneliness, bonanza farms, john wesley powell said farming would be difficult. Famers used barbed wire fences: 1890, more people lived in cities than farms in the west, oil discovered in la in 1892 vi. California was the center point of the west"s economy: logging, mining, and gold rushes dominated the west, new mexico, land of sheep farming. Of nm sheep belonged to 20 families: the subjugation of the plains indians, some indians moved to great plains to use horses, ex.
