Exam 2 History Review

Contributing factors to the Industrial Revolution

Free enterprise, lass ire Faire, new inventions, cheap labor ( immigrants and rural Americans)

Assembly Line ( Henry Ford)

process for rapid production of inventions

Working Conditions

14+ hours a day, 6 days a week, little to no breaks, bad working condition

Labor Unions

Better working conditions, better pay, conflict with owners/ workers

Methods of Breaking Strikes

tools, lockouts, blacklist, SCAB, yellow dogs, pinkertons

Homestead Strike

Strikers Vs Pinkertons, 16 killed, 23 wounded

Samuel Gompers ( AFL- American Federal Labor)

Organized lots of strikers

Black Codes

Racist Laws by southern states

Jim Crow Laws

Segregation policies

Tenant Farming

Africans rent farms to farm

Disenfranchisement

restricting the right to vote

*Plessy v. Ferguson*

Birth of “Jim Crow”, supreme court “ separate but equal

Westward March

North focused on expansion,Agressive encounters with Natives

Dawes Act

Fed Govt divide tribal lands, and given to individuals, land given back was dry and useless

Homestead Act

Encourages settlers to move west

Americanization

whitewashing

Chinese Exclusion Act 

Discrimination and ristristritions against Chinese people

Andrew Carnegie ( robber Baron)

300 billionaire, gave out money to others but also took advantage of other business

Robber Barons

Big businessmen who made fortune off railroad boom

Big Business (pros/cons)

pros: more money

cons: bad working conditions

Trusts

A group of business controlling together

Knights of Labor

equal pay regardless of gender, cooperative business enterprises, end of convict labor

Jacob Riis

Police reporter who exposed the slums

Machine Politics

single leader that encourage immigrants

Tammany Hall

Political machine that operates in new york

Growth of Railroads

increased transportation, the economy goes up

Cattle Industry Boom

people start raising cattle to eat

Urbanization

the creation of more cities and people

Industrialization

Introduces industry/ large scale

Transcontinental Railroad

Connects the nation by a railroad

Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Whitewashing Natives

Wounded Knee Massacre

attempted to disarm Lakoto people, killed 150+ Lakoto people

Sharecropping

trapped in poverty, renting tools lead to debt

Monopolies

One business leader controlling everyone