APUSH Unit 6 (1865-1898) duel

Views on immigration

NAWSA

Interstate commerce act Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads

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

Worked to close down saloons

congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans

Ida B. Wells Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her

Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society

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

American federation of labor

Women's Christian Temperance Union Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members

Pullman strike

John D. Rockefeller Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.

Populist party 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

Railroads

Homestead act

Political machines

Knights of labor National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts

Sherman antitrust act

There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time

Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants

Facilitated the migration of black people to africa

Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war

Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.

All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them

Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel

The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes

Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves

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

Dawes act

Great railroad strike

Andrew Carnegie Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process

Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists

Interstate commerce act Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads

White collar workers All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them

International migration society Facilitated the migration of black people to africa

Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.

Views on immigration Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers

Made monopolizing an entire market illegal

Reservation system

NAWSA Worked to secure voting rights for women

Settlement houses Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women

Women's Christian Temperance Union Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members

Bessemer process Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel

Assimilationist movement

Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.

Tammany Hall

Indian appropriation act congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans

Laissez-faire economics There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time

Pullman strike After a railroad car manufacturer cut wages, and the union tried to negotiate, the company failed them all. The railroad union decided to not work on any trains with Pullman cars in them. The railroad owners tied the Pullman cars to mail trains in order to get the government to keep them moving, and the union members were jailed

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

Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her

Populist party

Homestead act Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.

Knights of labor National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts

Government support for railroads Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants

Pendleton Act

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.

Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes

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