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
Pendleton Act
National Grange movement
All the industrialization created a new type of work for managers and administrators who ran the factories instead of working in them
Anti-Saloon league
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
Homestead act
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Ghost dance movement
Dawes act
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Labor unions
Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
American federation of labor
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Views on immigration
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
American protective association
Gospel of wealth
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
Changes in farming
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
Interstate commerce act
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
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.
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
Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
John D. Rockefeller
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
Sioux wars
Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Jim Crow laws
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Assimilationist movement
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
Government support for railroads
