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"Old immigrants"
Immigrants that came from 1861-1880 from Eastern and Western Europe, white, literate, protestant, familiar with representative governments (assimilate well)
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Pull/Push factors
Pull-good things bringing immigrants like jobs, opportunities, lack of military service

Push-bad things immigrants get away from, political, economic, and religious persecution
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"new immigrants"
(1881-1920) Come from Southern or Eastern Europe, Jewish, Catholic, or Orthodox, poor, illiterate, dark-skinned (don't assimilate well)
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Assimilation
Immigrants adopt American culture over time
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Ghetto
Slums & tenements that prevented residents from leaving
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Ethnic enclaves v. chain migration
Chain migration: when family and friends follow each other into America to live in ethnic enclaves, a building or area that houses immigrants from the same country or village
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Thomas Nast
Cartoonist who used satire to raise public consciousness of bosses
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Victorian morality
A set of social ideas embraced by the privileged class of England and America during the long reign of Queen Victoria. Encouraged women to be moral leaders and teach good manners.
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Cult of domesticity
A response to industrialization putting women back in the household
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Jacob Riis
Thought immigrant's lack of self control and discipline caused city problems & wrote a book
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Jane Addams
Looked at low wages and dangerous working conditions, studied city housing conditions, pressured politicians to enforce sanitation regulations and founded the first Settlement House as a social center for women.
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Children's Aid Society
Founded by Charles Loring Brace & provided dormitories and practical education for children
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Social Gospel
Led by Washington Gladden, put part of the blame for poverty on the rich and encouraged people to fight social injustice and mediate between businesses and workers
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Settlement House Movement
Taught women necessary skills before college
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Chinese exclusion act of 1882
Banned Chinese immigration for 10 years, but extended to 1902 where it was banned indefinitely, and ended in 1934
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Dennis Kearney
Founded the Workingmen's Party of California, a political party focused on stopping Chinese immigration
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American Protection Association
Nativist organization founded in 1887, and grew from the Panic of 1893
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"Undesirables"
Those banned from entering the US (1875): Prostitutes and convicts at first, then lunatics and idiots, and then the illiterate
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New inventions
Refrigerated railroad car, barbed wire, lightbulbs, & Bessemer process
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Manufacturing towns
A town that exists for the sole purpose of providing labor to a factory
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Six features that dominate large scale manufacturing after Civil war
  1. Exploitation of coal deposits for cheap energy

  2. Technological innovation in transportation, communication, and factory system

  3. Need for enormous numbers of new workers that can be controlled

  4. The constant pressure of competition, cutting costs & prices and getting rid of rivals & creating monopolies

  5. The stark drop in prices

  6. 6.The failure of the money supply to keep pace with productivity

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Cornelius Vanderbilt
Ran majority of railroads through the New York Central Railroad System
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Ways the Railroads pioneered new methods of corporate enterprise
Accounting costs to predict profits, advanced methods of accounting and organization, standardizing equipment and facilities
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Telegraph
A device that used electrical signals to send messages quickly over long distances, allowed for communication across US
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Time zones
Created for cohesive train schedules
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Refrigerator cars
Allowed for meat to be transported over a long distance, instead of having to take the animals to the processing plant
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Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
Tried to regulate railroad rates and have them published, and created the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to deal with issues
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J. Pierpont Morgan
Banker who bought Carnegie Steel and formed United States Steel corporation, controlling the steel market
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Andrew Carnegie
Created Gospel of Wealth, started as a laborer, learned the Bessemer process, founded J. Thompson Steel, and used vertical integration to control the steel market
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US Steel
Monopoly owned by J.P. Morgan, 8 steel companies combined, controlled steel market
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Bessemer Process
A process to make industrial steel from raw iron more efficiently
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Vertical integration
A single business controlling all aspects of a manufacturing process from the extraction of raw materials all the way to the sale of the finished product
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John D. Rockefeller
Head of Standard Oil Company, cut prices and bought out competition
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Horizontal Integration
Buy out competition until you have control of a single area of industry (one company lowers prices drastically, & other companies can't afford to lower their prices & lose their customers & then the first company buys them out)
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Standard Oil Trust
An umbrella corporation to run each company and control production
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Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Outlawed trusts and monopolies that fixed prices in restraint of trade, didn't work & benefited businesses
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Mail-order catalog
Allowed consumers outside cities to shop manufactured goods
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United States v. E.C. Knight Company
Argued that the Knight firm, controlling more than 90% of US sugar refining operated in illegal restraint of trade but the Supreme Court through out the lawsuit (1895)
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Scientific Management/Taylorism
Firms need a scientific organization of production, and increase efficiency by subdividing tasks & allowing for mass production
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McCormick process
Hired a production manager to introduce new jigs, steel gauges, & pattern machines to mass produce parts, to speed production for mechanical reapers
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Economies of Scale
Factors that cause a producer's average cost per unit to fall as output rises
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Visible hand
New class of managers that operated between workers and owners
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Great Merger Movement
Between 1895-1904, wave of mergers occurred consolidating about 4,000 companies into firms/monopolies like General Electric
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Political machines
Corrupt figures that control city politics by using immigrants for votes and inflated prices for profit
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Boss Tweed
Led the biggest machine, Tammany Hall
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National Labor Union
Founded by William Sylvis (1866); supported 8-hour workday, convict labor, federal department of labor, banking reform, immigration restrictions to increase wages, women; excluded blacks
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Knights of Labor
Founded by Terence Powderly, united skilled and unskilled workers, campaigned for 8 hour day, but lost support because of the Haymarket Square Riot
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Terence Powderly
Founded the Knights of Labor
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Haymarket Square Riot
A protest in Haymarket Square, where a bomb went off, killing 7 policemen and 4 strikers
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American Federation of Labor
A union of skilled workers aiming for higher wages, fewer hours, and safer working conditions through a conservative approach
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Samuel Gompers
Leader of the American Federation of Labor
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Molly Maguires
The Pennsylvania Coal Miners Union
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Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Response to cut wages in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Reading, and Chicago that was shut down by state militia. $40 million in destroyed property and 100 deaths showed the need for union membership, political influence, and government aid.
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Strikebreakers
Workers hired to do the jobs of striking workers until the labor dispute is resolved
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The Great Upheaval
(1886) Year of intense worker strikes and violent labor confrontations in the United States
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Pinkerton
A private security agency used to break strikes
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Homestead Strike of 1892
It was one of the most violent strikes in U.S. history. It was against the Homestead Steel Works, which was part of the Carnegie Steel Company, in Pennsylvania in retaliation against wage cuts. The riot was ultimately put down by Pinkerton Police and the state militia, and the violence further damaged the image of unions. (Led by the Pennsylvania Coal Miners Union)
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Pullman Strike of 1894
After Pullman cut wages, the American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs refused to handle Pullman cars. President Grover Cleveland broke the strike with federal soldiers and arrested Debs.
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American Railway Union
Led by Eugen Debs & started the Pullman Strike
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Eugene V. Debs
Leader of the American Railway Union, he voted to aid workers in the Pullman strike. He was jailed for six months for disobeying a court order after the strike was over.
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