APUSH Unit 6 (1865-1898) duel

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

Ghost dance movement

Views on immigration

International migration society

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

American federation of labor Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes

Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.

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

Reservation system

National Grange movement

American protective association Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists

Women's Christian Temperance Union

Panic of 1893

By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled

Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties

Anti-Saloon league Worked to close down saloons

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

Political machines Corrupt political bosses and their followers

Debates over money Farmers wanted to print more money so they could more easily pay back their debts, but the bankers and the wealthy wanted to keep the U.S. Dollar on the gold standard

Sioux wars

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

Tammany Hall

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

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

Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods

Chinese exclusion act

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

Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions

Bessemer process Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel

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

A severe economic depression during which nearly a quarter of railroads declared bankruptcy. This caused bankers to buy up many of the railroads, leading to consolidation.

Government support for railroads

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

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

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

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

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

By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled

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

Assimilationist movement

American federation of labor

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

American protective association Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists

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

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

Haymarket square riot

Sioux wars

Railroads

Political machines

Settlement houses

Debates over money Farmers wanted to print more money so they could more easily pay back their debts, but the bankers and the wealthy wanted to keep the U.S. Dollar on the gold standard

Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties

Chinese exclusion act

Pendleton Act

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

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

Andrew Carnegie

International migration society

Ida B. Wells

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