Indian appropriation act
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Sioux wars
Great railroad strike
Assimilationist movement
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Political machines
Corrupt political bosses and their followers
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
American federation of labor
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Railroads
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Sherman antitrust act
Interstate commerce act
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
American protective association
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Booker T. Washington
Pullman strike
International migration society
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Andrew Carnegie
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Haymarket square riot
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
Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Debates over money
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.
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
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Anti-Saloon league
Populist party
