Great railroad strike
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.
Bessemer process
Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Interstate commerce act
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Government support for railroads
Dawes act
Railroads
Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
American federation of labor
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Reservation system
Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
Knights of labor
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Settlement houses
Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Debates over money
White collar workers
American protective association
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Assimilationist movement
Political machines
Corrupt political bosses and their followers
International migration society
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
Views on immigration
Sherman antitrust act
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.
John D. Rockefeller
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Andrew Carnegie
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
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
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
