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Cyrus Feild

transcontinental telegraph cable

Alexander Graham Bell

modern telephone

Thomas Edison

lightbulb, electricity, movie projector, phonograph

Gustavious Swift

refrigerated railcars

Sholes

typewriter

Burroughs

adding machine

Naismith

basketball

Eastmen

kodak camera

McCoy

oil engine automatically

Woods

send telegraph messages between trains

Matzdiger

shoemaking machine

Stanford

dropped gold spike

Hill

finished last major cross country line

Pullman

sleeping rail car

Morgan

most powerful banker

used profit to buy out large corporations

liked combination

even bought carnegie steel

Carnegie

gained control of all steps from molten iron ore to shipping iron away

Chivington

led militia against Cheyenne village

Sand Creek Massacre

destroyed village

Custer

Battle of Little Bighorn

killed along with all his men

Wounded Knee Creek Masacre

accidental gun fire

end of warfare between indians and american gov

Dawes Act

indians of reservations to become farmers

populists

wanted all silver turned into money so there would be more money in circulation

president Mckinley