Made monopolizing an entire market illegal
American protective association
Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists
Provided resources to the poor to enrich the neighborhood. Largely led by women
Ida B. Wells
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
NAWSA
Worked to secure voting rights for women
Knights of labor
National union open to ALL laborers. Wanted to end child labor and end trusts
Andrew Carnegie argued that those with wealth should invest it into society
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
Andrew Carnegie
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Worked to ban alcohol, had over 500,000 members
The new south
Homestead act
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
John D. Rockefeller
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Bessemer process
Debates over money
Labor unions
Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
Tammany Hall
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
Dawes act
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
By 1890, the U.S. Census Bureau declared that the frontier was officially settled
Social and educational collective aimed at brining farmers together. Soon became political to lobby for farmers
Growth of immigration
16 million immigrants (mostly from Europe) came looking for better economic opportunities
Interstate commerce act
Starting in 1865 many Americans started pushing westward again after the interruption of the civil war
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.
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
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time
Chinese exclusion act
Nativists successfully pressured Congress to stop the flow of Chinese immigrants who were coming over during the gold rush.
