Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Ida B. Wells
John D. Rockefeller
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Government support for railroads
Populist party
Interstate commerce act
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Ghost dance movement
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Changes in farming
A new focus on cash-crops in the north and west, and a shift to more expensive mechanized farming methods put smaller farms out of business. Big trusts that farmers relied on (like railroads) also raised prices, making it even harder for farmers to make a living
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
Haymarket square riot
Anti-Saloon league
Worked to close down saloons
Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
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
Panic of 1893
A severe economic depression during which nearly a quarter of railroads declared bankruptcy. This caused bankers to buy up many of the railroads, leading to consolidation.
Assimilationist movement
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
Pullman strike
Railroads
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Knights of labor
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Sioux wars
Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Indian appropriation act
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
Labor unions
Chinese exclusion act
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Laissez-faire economics
International migration society
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
NAWSA
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Andrew Carnegie
