Railroads Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
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Bessemer process Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Jim Crow laws Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
Homestead act Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Anti-Saloon league Worked to close down saloons
Government support for railroads
American protective association Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Views on immigration
Pendleton Act
Women's Christian Temperance Union Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
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
Settlement houses Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Knights of labor National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
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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
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
International migration society
Tammany Hall
Sioux wars
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
Interstate commerce act
NAWSA Worked to secure voting rights for women
Pullman strike 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
Dawes act
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
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
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
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Andrew Carnegie Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Sherman antitrust act Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
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
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Knights of labor
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
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
Women's Christian Temperance Union Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Political machines
Dawes act Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Debates over money
Laissez-faire economics There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
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.
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Ida B. Wells
Tammany Hall The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Gospel of wealth
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Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Sioux wars
Growth of immigration
Great railroad strike
Andrew Carnegie Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
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Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Anti-Saloon league
American federation of labor Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Bessemer process Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
Pullman strike 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
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Sherman antitrust act Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
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
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.
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.
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