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
Homestead act
Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years.
Knights of labor
Editor of a newspaper editorialized against lynching and jim crow. She fled north due to threats against her
Required railroad rates to be reasonable and just, and established a federal commission to oversee the railroads
American protective association
Reservation system
Andrew Carnegie
Worked to close down saloons
Political machines
Assimilationist movement
Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values.
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
Railroads
Sioux wars
Sioux initally won a deceive victory against the U.S. army.
Dawes act
Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves
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.
Populist party
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
John D. Rockefeller
Pioneered horizontal integration, where one company controls every seller in the market.
Facilitated the migration of black people to africa
Labor unions
Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions
congress sparked a new fight with the Sioux, by passing a law that nullified all previous treaties made with native Americans
Growth of immigration
National Grange movement
Changes in farming
Ghost dance movement
Tammany Hall
The most famous political machine organized and met the needs of immigrants and the poor in exchange for votes
White collar workers
