The new south
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
Jim Crow laws
Forced segregation and prevented african americans from exercising their civil liberties
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
International migration society
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
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
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Labor unions
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
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
White collar workers
Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Assimilationist movement
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
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
Sherman antitrust act
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
Ghost dance movement
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
John D. Rockefeller
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Panic of 1893
American protective association
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
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
Changes in farming
