Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
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.
Knights of labor
Laissez-faire economics
Sioux wars
Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Interstate commerce act
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
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
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
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.
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
Andrew Carnegie
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Bessemer process
Political machines
Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
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
Sherman antitrust act
Jim Crow laws
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
American protective association
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
American federation of labor
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
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
International migration society
Ida B. Wells
Dawes act
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Railroads
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
