Unit 1 US History

”New Immigrants”

From South East Europe/Formed ethnic communities

“New South”

Replaced slavery with sharecropping

American Federation of Labor

“Bread and butter” unions

Andrew Carnegie

“Gospel of Wealth”/Steel

1-Bessemer process

Steel prices fell/More metal available

Buffalo

Decimated by Anglo buffalo hunters

Cattle

Large market for beef/Through railroad industry

Chinese Exclusion Act

Not allowed to immigrate/Can’t become U.S citizens

Chinese Immigrants

California/”Took Jobs”

Coal

Led to steam power/New energy source

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Steamboats, then railroads

Corporations

Increased hours/ Cut Wages

Dawes Severalty Act

Broke apart tribes/Forced assimilation

Dumbbell tenements

Slums for “new immigrants”

Factory workers

Rebelled by performing poorly

Florence Kelley

Child labor reform

1-Gilded Age

Corruption and fraud/ Used all resources available

Gilded Age problems

Racism, corruption, and religious intolerance

Granger Movement

Challenged railroad’s power

Homestead Act

Free land in the west

Indigenous Events

Sand Creek, Little Big Horn, Wounded Knee

Interchangeable Parts

Part of the American system

Jane Addams

Settlement House, Chicago

Jim Crow Laws

Established segregation

John D. Rockefeller

“holding company and trusts”/Oil

Nativism

Hatred against immigrants

Oklahoma

Indigenous land

Plessy v. Ferguson

Legalized segregation

Populist Party

Powerful 3rd Party

1-Populist Platform

Free Silver/Direct elections/Income tax/Term limits

Republican Party

Lost power after reconstruction

1-Robber Barons

Corrupt/Philanthropists

Socialism

A way to challenge capitalism

Transcontinental Railroad

Led to westward expansion

Urbanization

Availability of city jobs