Homestead act Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
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NAWSA Worked to secure voting rights for women
Government support for railroads
Tammany Hall The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Haymarket square riot
Anti-Saloon league
Ghost dance movement nationwide movement of resistance. They began to believe that if they took up the ritualistic ghost dance, that their ancestors would return and drive the Americans out.
Wanted to correct the concentration of power held by banks and trusts. Proposed the Omaha platform: Direct election of senators, more referendums, graduated income tax, and an 8-hour workday
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Chinese exclusion act Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
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Growth of immigration
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
Views on immigration
Knights of labor National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Laissez-faire economics
John D. Rockefeller Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Labor unions Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
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Bessemer process Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Great railroad strike Railroad companies cut salaries due to a recession. Railroad workers went on strike in 11 states. When the strike got violent, 11 people were killed before President Hayes sent in federal troops
Ida B. Wells
Dawes act
A new focus on cash-crops in the north and west, and a shift to more expensive mechanized farming methods put smaller farms out of business. Big trusts that farmers relied on (like railroads) also raised prices, making it even harder for farmers to make a living
Political appointments were very corrupt after a guy shot the president because he didn't get a job, congress passed the Pendleton Act, which created an exam that was used for deciding who would get a job
Interstate commerce act Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Panic of 1893
Corrupt political bosses and their followers
Andrew Carnegie Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
American protective association Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
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Populist party
The new south Idea that the future of the south would be based on economic diversity and industrial growth. Massive growth of population, industry, and railroads. Only in limited industrial centers though.
Panic of 1893 A severe economic depression during which nearly a quarter of railroads declared bankruptcy. This caused bankers to buy up many of the railroads, leading to consolidation.
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
Anarchists set off a bomb during a Knights of labor protest in Chicago for an 8-hour workweek. Many people began to see the labor movement as violent and radical
Pendleton Act
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Labor unions
Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
Gospel of wealth
Sioux wars Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Homestead act
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Chinese exclusion act Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
NAWSA Worked to secure voting rights for women
White collar workers
Tammany Hall
Political machines Corrupt political bosses and their followers
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Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
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Bessemer process Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Worked to close down saloons
Growth of immigration 16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Debates over money Farmers wanted to print more money so they could more easily pay back their debts, but the bankers and the wealthy wanted to keep the U.S. Dollar on the gold standard
Ghost dance movement nationwide movement of resistance. They began to believe that if they took up the ritualistic ghost dance, that their ancestors would return and drive the Americans out.
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Ida B. Wells Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Assimilationist movement
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