APUSH Unit 6 (1865-1898) duel

Reservation system

Anti-Saloon league Worked to close down saloons

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

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

Sherman antitrust act

Labor unions

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

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

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

Sioux wars

Women's Christian Temperance Union Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members

Great railroad strike

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

Views on immigration

Booker T. Washington

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

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

Ghost dance movement

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

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

Political machines

American protective association Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists

The new south

Chinese exclusion act Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.

Government support for railroads

Changes in farming

International migration society Facilitated the migration of black people to africa

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.

National Grange movement

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

Chinese exclusion act

American protective association Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists

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

Changes in farming

Jim Crow laws

Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes

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

National Grange movement Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers

Bessemer process Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel

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

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

Women's Christian Temperance Union

Worked to close down saloons

National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts

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

Political machines

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

Made monopolizing an entire market illegal

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

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

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.

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

Laissez-faire economics

Settlement houses Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women

Andrew Carnegie

Government support for railroads

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

The new south

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