APUSH : 6 1865-1898

1865 to 1898 aka…

gilded age (bc the industry advances)

gilded age developments

cooperations trusts monopolies, rise of capitalists/robber barons, carnegies steel & rockefellers oil industry, possible bc lassez faire economy

gilded age labor

long hours low pay dangerous conditions, rise of labor unions, used strikes and collective bargaining for change

labor unrest

great railroad strike 1877, haymarket riot 1886, pullman strike 1894

govt stance on state of industry

govt sided w/ the businesses, blamed labor unions for riots and strikes gone wrong

gilded age philosophies

social darwinism : economic survival of the fittest, carnegies gospel: wealthy should better society w/ philanthropy, social gospel : christian duty to help poor

immigration effects

tenement housing, ethnic neighborhoods, S & E europe to E coast, asians to W coast, chinese exclusion act, rise in nativism

politicians giving services for votes

chinese exclusion act

1882

development of the west

homestead act (land given to ppl that would live on and farm the land), transcontinental RR in 1869, expansion of mining industry and ranching, neg. consequences for natives+buffalo

plains war

natives (nez perce, apache, comache, etc.) fought to keep their land in battle of wounded knee, sand creek, etc. natives defeated

natives polices

start of residential schools, dawes severity act m broke up tribal land & promoted assimilation

the new south

promoted economic diversity (steel plants, lumber mills, textile factories, tobacco processing plants)

populist movement

political party formed by farmers in debt struggling w/ low crop prices

omaha platform

populist party views, silver coinage, graduated income tax, direct election of senators