Reservation system Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
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Tammany Hall The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Worked to secure voting rights for women
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.
Assimilationist movement
Homestead act Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
American federation of labor
Labor unions Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
Laissez-faire economics
Dawes act
National Grange movement Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
Gospel of wealth Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
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Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
American protective association Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
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
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.
Andrew Carnegie Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Populist party
Women's Christian Temperance Union Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Sherman antitrust act
Knights of labor
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Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
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
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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
Corrupt political bosses and their followers
Sioux wars
Jim Crow laws Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Growth of immigration 16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
Andrew Carnegie
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Homestead act
Anti-Saloon league Worked to close down saloons
Laissez-faire economics
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
National Grange movement Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
Haymarket square riot 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
Pullman strike
Political machines Corrupt political bosses and their followers
NAWSA Worked to secure voting rights for women
American protective association
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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
Interstate commerce act
Indian appropriation act congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
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.
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
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Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
American federation of labor
John D. Rockefeller
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.
Booker T. Washington former slave who trained other black men to become economically self-sufficient, and argued this was a better way to gain power than to campaign for better voting rights
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
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Sherman antitrust act Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
Sioux wars
Views on immigration Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
White collar workers
Railroads Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Changes in farming 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
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