Industrialism/Progressives Era

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Gold Rush

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Immigrants migrating to California for opportunity

1849

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Homestead Act

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  • Free land on Great Plains

  • Stay for 5 Years

  • Required to farm it

  • Houses made of Sod

  • Purpose: Displace Indians already there

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Gold Rush

Immigrants migrating to California for opportunity

1849

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Homestead Act

  • Free land on Great Plains

  • Stay for 5 Years

  • Required to farm it

  • Houses made of Sod

  • Purpose: Displace Indians already there

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Wounded Knee

  • Location Army slaughtered Natives after moving them

  • Marks end of Indian war

  • Took children and put them in churches

  • Kills Indian culture but still letting them live

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Assimilation

  • Shifting Immigrants to American culture

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Americanization

  • Movement made up of volunteers

  • Getting immigrants to assimilate

  • Taught immigrants English, history, and gov.

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Social Gospel

  • Rejected Social Darwinism

  • Help the poor

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Eugenics

  • Idea to Improve humans through breeding

  • Forced people “lesser” to sterilize

  • Race superiority ideas

  • Immigration restriction from these ideas

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Urbanization

  • Immigrants moving from rural areas to urban areas

  • Bigger opportunities

  • Reasons: Poverty, Overcrowded,

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Muckrakers

  • Journalists that exposed job conditions in Society

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Origin of Immigrants

  • Pre 1890 - Western and Northern Europe

  • After 1890 - South and East Europe

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Lynching

  • Killing of a person done by a mob

  • Hung

  • Chinese targeted (racial motivation)

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Booker T. Washington

  • He wanted African Americans not to fight for equal rights instead educate themselves in order to be better at jobs he also started

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W.E.B. DuBois

  • First African American to set a PHD from lawyers

  • An thought social change can change through protest

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NAACP

  • A foundation started by WEB Dubois that fought for social justic

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Plessy v Ferguson

  • A supreme court case dulling segregation laws didn’t violate the constitution because it was separate but equal.

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Transcontinental Railroad

  • Started in Omaha Nebraska to Oakland

  • Another crew in Sacramento to Oakland

  • Promontory Utah: Where it was completed

  • Chinese + Irish Immigrants mistreated

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Labor Unions

Unionization against factory policies to get better pay and conditions

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Gilded Age

  • Things looked good on the outside:

  • Opportunities, Tech, Getting Rich

  • Reality:

  • Poor working conditions

  • Poverty

  • Corruption

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Haymarket Square

1886 A rally advocating for a 8 hour work week being bombed

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John D. Rockerfella

  • Robber Baron

  • Oil manufacturer

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Social Darwinism

  • Survival of the fittest

  • Don’t help the poor

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Chain Stores

  • Drove out smaller businesses by using tactics such as

  • Low prices and buying in bulk

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Monopolies

  • Consequences:

  • Worker wages went down, prices up

  • Influenced gov.

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Trusts

  • Combination of businesses that dominate an industry

  • Created monopolies

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Progressives

  • Believed gov. Should protect them

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Public Interest

  • policies good for everyone

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Initiative

  • Citizens propose laws, first get signatures, then propose them for people to vote

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Referendum

  • Citizens veto laws, first get signatures, then propose for ppl to vote to overturn a law

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Recall

  • Vote someone out of office before the end of their term

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Margaret Sanger

  • Fought for women birth control rights

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19th Amendment

  • Women’s right to vote

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17th Amendment

  • Allowed ppl to vote for Senators

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The Jungle

  • Written by Uptown Sinclair

  • Food Safety laws made because of it

  • Exposed Bad conditions

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Transcontinental Railroad

1862-1869

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Haymarket Square

1886

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Wounded Knee

1890

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Plessy Messy

1896

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19th amendment

1920