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Iron law of supply and demand

The economic theory that determined wages and prices for goods and services.

Ghost Dance

a religious dance of native Americans looking for communication with the dead; Spiritual revival in 1890 by Indians that would lead to the massacre at Wounded Knee

Interstate Commerce Commission

Congress established the ICC to curb abuses in the railroad industry by regulating rates.

Wounded Knee Massacre

In 1890, after killing Sitting Bull, the 7th Cavalry rounded up Sioux at this place in South Dakota and 300 Natives were murdered and only a baby survived.

Dawes Act

Pressured by reformers who wanted to "acclimatize" Native Americans to white culture, Congress passed the Dawes Severalty Act in 1887. The Dawes Act outlawed tribal ownership of land and forced 160-acre homesteads into the hands of individual Indians and their families with the promise of future citizenship. The goal was to assimilate Native Americans into white culture as quickly as possible. As it turned out, the Dawes Act succeeded only in stripping tribes of their land and failed to incorporate Native Americans into U.S. society.