HIST 2112 (age of the city)
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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
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Andrew Carnegie
wealthy steel producer, had plant in homestead, Pennsylvania and used vertical indegration
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Bessemer converter
used molten iron and oxidation to get rid of carbon (and other impurities) to make steel which is more durable
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Great Train Robbery
first western film with narration in film making
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New immigration
1890-1920 immigrants from south and east Europe i.g. Italy, Russia, Greece
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Nativism
defense of native born americans hostility to foreigners
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National Origins Act
1924 targeted eastern/Southern Europeans and East Asians limited migration
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