Worked to close down saloons
Changes in farming
Chinese exclusion act
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Indian appropriation act
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
Debates over money
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
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.
Andrew Carnegie
All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
American federation of labor
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Assimilationist movement
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
Settlement houses
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.
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
Corrupt political bosses and their followers
Knights of labor
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Tammany Hall
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
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Reservation system
Sioux wars
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Dawes act
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Laissez-faire economics
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Views on immigration
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
