APUSH Unit 6

time period

1865 (Reconstruction) - 1898 (Spanish-American War)

technological innovation

Transcontinental Railroad, lightbulb, transatlantic telegraph line

Developments in Native American Interactions

Dawes Severalty Act- attempt to promote assimilation, tribes were no longer legal entities or could own land, gave them land to settle even though many were nomadic

Battle of Little Bighorn- Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull decimate Custer’s soldiers

Development in AA Civil Rights Movement

Booker T. Washington (education to prove themselves) vs. WEB Du Bois (education to work for themselves)

Developments in Immigration

• immigrants now coming from E & S Europe

• Immigration Restriction League

• Chinese Exclusion Act after railroad complete

• Political Machines help immigrants

• Hull House (settlement houses) helps Immigrants

Developments for Farmers

• increased production → debt crisis

• The Grange Movement- united farmers to meet their economic, social, and cultural needs

Labor Movement

• Rise of uníos (ex: Knights of Labor)

• Strikes

  • Haymarket Riot-labor rally in Chicago that resulted in violence and unions looking too radical

  • Pullman Strike- against Pullman railcar company but spread to railroad strike that disrupted nation)

Rise of Industrial Capitalism

consolidation of corporations into trusts and holding companies

• Vanderbilt, Carnegie, JP Morgan, Rockefeller

• Political Machines (Tammy Hall)

• Middle Class

Political Developments

corruption- bribes and spoils system

• Political Machines (Tammy Hall)

• Pendleton Act- assigning federal jobs was taken out of the hands of politicians

• Sherman Antitrust Act- first attempt to stop monopolies

Rise of Populism- people’s party

• Omaha Platform- Bryan’s plan for power to the people (ex: referendums and direct elections of senators)