Growth of immigration Knights of labor Populist party National Grange movement

Workers formed labor unions to have more negotiating power and fight for better pay and working conditions 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

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 Broke up tribal organizations and divided up tribal land and gave U.S. citizenship to natives who "Americanized" themselves Facilitated the migration of black people to africa

There was an extreme lack of government regulation of the economy at the time Heavily anti-catholic and Social Darwinists 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 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

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 Wanted to end indian culture by forcing them to assimilate to American values. Gave settlers 160 acres of land if they lived there for 5 years. 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