Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
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
National Grange movement
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
Booker T. Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Debates over money
Homestead act
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Changes in farming
Jim Crow laws
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Pendleton Act
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
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
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.
Tammany Hall
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Reservation system
International migration society
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
Panic of 1893
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Labor unions
Worked to secure voting rights for women
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
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
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.
Gospel of wealth
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Anti-Saloon league
Worked to close down saloons
