HIST 2112 (age of the city)

Homestead Strike

(1892) Pittsburgh, PA employs upset about sliding scale pay, because of little pay during depression, gets violent and starts shooting at each other the towns people allow the Pinkerton detectives to surrender

Andrew Carnegie

wealthy steel producer, had plant in homestead, Pennsylvania and used vertical indegration

Bessemer converter

used molten iron and oxidation to get rid of carbon (and other impurities) to make steel which is more durable

Great Train Robbery

first western film with narration in film making

New immigration

1890-1920 immigrants from south and east Europe i.g. Italy, Russia, Greece

Nativism

defense of native born americans hostility to foreigners

National Origins Act

1924 targeted eastern/Southern Europeans and East Asians limited migration