Anti-Saloon league
Worked to close down saloons
Jim Crow laws
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Views on immigration
Labor unions
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.
Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Great railroad strike
Andrew Carnegie
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Gospel of wealth
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Indian appropriation act
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
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
Sioux wars
Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Growth of immigration
16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
Changes in farming
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Indian nations were assigned land called reservations. However this land was much less than before, and many decided to just keep following buffalo
Chinese exclusion act
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.
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.
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
NAWSA
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Sherman antitrust act
Assimilationist movement
Homestead act
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Dawes act
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
International migration society
