Railroads
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
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.
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Sioux wars
Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Laissez-faire economics
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Political machines
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
All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
Dawes act
Panic of 1893
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.
Views on immigration
Indian appropriation act
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
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
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
Tammany Hall
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
National Grange movement
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
American federation of labor
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Settlement houses
International migration society
Assimilationist movement
Chinese exclusion act
Growth of immigration
16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
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
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
Populist party
