Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
International migration society
Sioux wars
Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
NAWSA
Indian appropriation act
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
Political machines
Corrupt political bosses and their followers
Pendleton Act
Interstate commerce act
Railroads
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.
Homestead act
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
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
Chinese exclusion act
Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
John D. Rockefeller
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Jim Crow laws
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Settlement houses
Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Debates over money
Booker T. Washington
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
Bessemer process
Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Gospel of wealth
Worked to close down saloons
Assimilationist movement
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
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.
Growth of immigration
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
