American protective association
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
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
Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
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
Jim Crow laws
Ghost dance movement
Pullman strike
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
Laissez-faire economics
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Populist party
Wanted to correct the concentration of power held by banks and trusts. Proposed the Omaha platform: Direct election of senators, more referendums, graduated income tax, and an 8-hour workday
Tammany Hall
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
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
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
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
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
Knights of labor
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
NAWSA
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Chinese exclusion act
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Worked to close down saloons
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
Sioux wars
Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Government support for railroads
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
International migration society
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
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
Labor unions
