Sioux wars
Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Haymarket square riot
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
Assimilationist movement
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Laissez-faire economics
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
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Changes in farming
International migration society
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
Indian appropriation act
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Jim Crow laws
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
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.
Views on immigration
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
Political machines
American federation of labor
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
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
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.
Railroads
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
Anti-Saloon league
Worked to close down saloons
Sherman antitrust act
Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
Dawes act
National Grange movement
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
John D. Rockefeller
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
