Unit 6 (1865-1898)

Age of invention

last quarter of the 19th century

Thomas A Edison

Developed his workshop in menlo park NJ, made the lightbulb and powerplants, increased electricity availability.

economics of sales

The cheaper the products the more they sold

Assembly line production

Started when elie whitney made interchangable parts. Each worker is given a specific task and this helps mass produce things.

Corprate consolation

the combination of several business units or several different companies into a larger organization.

Holding company

A new form of business organization, it held enough stock in other companies to hold a monopoly.

Horizontal integration

Seven smaller companies within the same industry are bought legally or destroyed. This is illegal today because of anti trust legislation that has been passed. Standard oil company by John d Rockefeller.

Vertical Integration

One company buys out all factors of production from raw materials to finished products. Legal as long as the company doesn’t become a trust or holding company and allows for other competition.

Sherman anti trust act of 1890

In 1890 passed. Public pressure led to this. Authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them.

U.S v E.C Knight Co 1895

1895 court case. A case in which the Court found that the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was constitutional, but can only regulate interstate commerce and not intrastate commerce.

Clayton Antitrust act

Passed in 1914 by the wilson administration. Allowed

Gospel of wealth

Written by andrew carnegie, rich should give back to the community (ex. he gave money to libraries)

Social Darwinism

some people are just made better

Boss Tweed

prominent leader of tammany hall who was corrupt. Helped immigrants in return for their votes.

Thomas Nast

cartoonist who drew images of Tweed’s coruptness and later NYT magazine proves Tweed’s a scammer.

Knights of Labor

founded in 1869 by Uriah Stephans. One of the first national labor unions. Organized skilled and unskilled workers, wanted equal pay, 8 hour workday, child labor laws, safety/sanitary laws, federal income tax, government control of railroads.

Terrence Powderly

later leader of Knights of labor, led unseuccessful violent strikes in the 1880s that made the union unpopular.

Haymarket Square Riot

1886 labor demonstration. A bomb went off killing police and many blamed the incident on the influence of union radicals.

Homstead strike

1892. Workers in Carnegies steel factory went on strike protesting wage cuts and the inability to form a union.

Pinkerton Detective Forces

hired by Henry Clay Frick to prevent steel workers from protesting.

Pullman strike

1894. Workers faced a wage cut + increase of their housing costs. They striked and the American Railway union joined them.

Eugene V Debs

Ran for president x5 and lost x5. President of American Railway union. Eventual leader of the American socialist party.

American federation of labor

led by Samuel Gompers. Excluded unskilled workers.

Hull house

Jane Addams funded it to provide services for immigrants (help them assimilate).

Yellow journalism

Exaggerate your writing.

Yellow journalists

Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst

Sharecropping

a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.

Jim Crow Laws

man they hated black people.

Civil Rights Act

1875 guaranteed all citizens, regardless of color, access to accommodations, theatres, public schools, churches, and cemeteries.

Plessy v Ferguson

1896. seperate but equal

Booker T Washington

equality through riches.

W. E. B Du Bois

more aggressive about reform for poc

1863-1869

Public help for the making of the transcontinental railroad.

Little Big Horn

1876, native victory where George Custer died

1889

statehood for North/South Dakota, Washington and Montana

Frederick Jackson Turner

1890 said the frontier was gone

Turner/Frontier thesis

It shaped american character, defined american spirit, fostered democracy, provided a safe valve for economic distress in urban places because there was a place for people to flee.

Homstead and Morill Land Grant Act

passed in 1862 offered land to anyone who could cultivate land (make it better) within 5 years.

US Fish Commission

Made in 1871 to study, moniter, and preserve wild fish

Sierra club

made in 1892 by John Muir, largest organization for conservation.

Dawes severalty act

1887, broke up the reservation system and distributed some of the land to the head of each Native American family. Main goal was to faten assimilation.

The ghost dance movement

started in 1889 inspired by the visions of the prophet Wovoka promised federal expansion in the west would end —> natives could live peacefully.

Wounded Knee Massacre

1890 incident. deadliest mass shooting in American history, involving nearly three hundred Lakota people shot and killed

civil service reform presidents

Rutherford B Hayes, Chester A Arthur, James Garfield.

Billion dollar congress

1890 harrissons presidency.

Munn v Illinois

regulated railroads and grain elevators in this case. Said states could regulate private industry that served the public interest.

Interstate Commerce Act

1887 it was passed. set up the ICC to supervise railroad activity and regulate it.

ICC

Interstate commerce commission, disbanded in 1980s (Reagan)

Wabash

court case said that states couldn’t establish rates involving interstate commerce.

Susan B Anthony

woman suffragist

American suffrage association

fought for womens suffrage and amendments to state constitutions.

19th amendment

voting for women! in the 1920s

Grange movement

founded in 1867. Started off with purpose of helping farmers the machinery and sell crops as a group but died out beause of a lack of money. Were responsible for laws regulating railroads 1870-1880s

Farmers’ Alliences

replaced grange movement. Allowed women to be politically active amd grew into the People’s Party.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

huge organizer for Farmers’ alliences

1893 president

Cleaveland

William Jennings Bryan

Cross of gold speech. Said through inflation northern banking control could loosen. lost against Mckinley and ended the populist movement.

16th amendment

federal income tax. adopted in 1913.

Tariff of abominations

1828 triggered the nullification crisis during Jacksons first administration.

McKinley tariff

enacted in 1890. Raised duties on imports by 50%

Wilson-Gorman Tariff

passed in 1894. High tax on sugar

William H Seward

secretary of state under Lincoln and Johnson who was like America should oversee the stuff going on in the Western Hemisphere (bought alaska).

Captain Alfred T Mahan

wrote The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890), popularised the idea of a New Navy.

Treaty of Paris

1898, spain granted cuba independenca and seceded the phillipenes, puerto rico, and guam to the U.S.

Teller amendment

U.S wouldn’t annex cuba

Platt amendment

US troops wont leave unless cuba signed and agreed to these provisions.

Good Neighbor Policy

1934 during FDR, US operates a naval station at Guatanamo Bay

Insular Cases

1901-1903 a series of opinions by the Supreme Court of the United States about the status of U.S. territories acquired in the Spanish–American War.

Open Door Policy

McKinley, sought to safeguard U.S. trading rights in China and asserted American interests in Asia

Pendleton Act

Chester Arthur passed it in 1883 dismantling the spoils system.