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Why did the federal government stop making treaties with individual Native American tribes?

This process consisted of blowing air through molten iron to burn out the impurities.

Which was not a major industry of the West?

What makes Promonotry, Utah, famous?

This Reconstruction plan required that 50% of all voters in the Confederate States pledge allegiance to the Union before they could enter back into the Union.

Even though he was know as a great railroad baron, he also built a great shipping empire.  He was not known for his philanthropist ideology, but did donate  $1 million to Central University in Nashville, Tennessee, (now named in his honor).   

System were poor farmers, white and black, could obtain materials such as food and seed on credit from merchants to be repaid after crops were sold.  It often resulted in a cycle of debt.

Buffalo provided the economic basis for the Plains Indians which included   ____________.

A Scottish immigrant who ultimately controlled the processing of his steel from mine to market.  By his death in 1919, he had given away more than $350 million dollars.

Danish immigrant that brought to life those living in tenements.  He was known for his powerful photographs as well as his book How the Other Half Lives that often shocked the middle-class American.