Studied by 15 people
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
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