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
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
John D. Rockefeller
Sioux wars
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
Changes in farming
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
Anti-Saloon league
Bessemer process
Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Settlement houses
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
Assimilationist movement
Interstate commerce act
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Ida B. Wells
Ghost dance movement
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
Railroads
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
The new south
Panic of 1893
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
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Dawes act
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
International migration society
Political machines
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
