Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
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Changes in farming
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
Booker T. Washington
Women's Christian Temperance Union Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
The new south
Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
Political machines Corrupt political bosses and their followers
Chinese exclusion act Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Ida B. Wells
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Homestead act
Gospel of wealth
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Settlement houses
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
Labor unions Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
Railroads
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Railroads supported by the government through money and land grants
Assimilationist movement
International migration society Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
Bessemer process Enabled manufacturers to produce huge quantities of steel
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
Great railroad strike
Laissez-faire economics There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
American protective association Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
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
Panic of 1893
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
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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
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
American federation of labor Grew to over a million members by 1901 and had some modest successes
Indian appropriation act
Views on immigration Feared that factory owners would use immigrants to keep wages low and to replace striking workers
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
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
Gospel of wealth
Andrew Carnegie Pioneered vertical integration, where one company controls every stage of the manufacturing process
Anti-Saloon league Worked to close down saloons
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Frozen!
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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.
Growth of immigration 16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
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Pullman strike
Railroads Massive extension of the railroad system created a truly national market for goods
Great railroad strike
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
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
A new focus on cash-crops in the north and west, and a shift to more expensive mechanized farming methods put smaller farms out of business. Big trusts that farmers relied on (like railroads) also raised prices, making it even harder for farmers to make a living
Knights of labor National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Dawes act Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
Jim Crow laws
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
Labor unions Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
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.
Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
Corrupt political bosses and their followers
Reservation system
Homestead act
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