Unit 6 APUSH
Tribe on Great Plains- sioux
Bison hunters
Don’t farm- non acceptable claims– conflict
Put them on reservations
Reservations- they can leave to kill bison
Kill all bison to keep them
Treaties are not upheld- Black hills of dakota- gold and american settlers went there- sioux reservation was there
3 main things: industrialization, urbanization and immigration
Immigrant group banned- chinese
Chinese go to california prior
One of largest china towns in san fran
Anti immigrant examples: Irish
Group opposed- nativists (know-nothing, americans)
1920s- immigration quotas limit southern and eastern europeans
Not anything new in 1920s- repeated
One period of negative flow of immigration- great depression
Chinese exclusion limits rights
Jobs chinese (west) work- railroads, laundry facilities, laborers in fields
Railroad group from east- Irish
What did we build- transcontinental railroad
People came to west, they also came due to Homestead Act (160 acres of land kinda free)
Construction of steel railroads effectively- steel made with bessemer process
Tribes opposed to railroads other than Sioux- Apache in Four Corners
Shayenne also opposed
Blackfoot indian reservation
Railroad project is infrastructure
Other examples- canals (american system) and roads, I-5 (interstate highway system, 1950s)(why california looks like suburbia)
1920s- national highways (kicks on route 66)
Populists are farmers, came from grangers, turned into democrats
Believe in big government intervention (regulation of banks and railroads, not fans of socialism)
Support- sharecroppers
No- bankers, industrialists, factory workers
Poor Western farmers mad- Bacon’s, Shay’s, and Whiskey’s Rebellion
Carnegie wrote “gospel of wealth”- give money to people before they die
Government shouldn’t regulate businesses
Believes in social darwinism
Believes in laissez faire
Doesn’t support sherman antitrust act
Doesn't like knights or american federation of labor
Not fan of bimetallism
William Tweed- boss tweed
Party boss
Political figure, not industrialist or economic tycoon
Where in new york is headquarters- tammany hall
Supports immigrants- hook up w jobs
Makes money off land purchases
Steals money from city (embezzlement)
Patronage (hook people up w jobs)
Government stops patronage how- pendleton civil service act by arthur (to limit it)
Separate but equal- plessy v. fergueson
Supports jim crow laws
Examples- grandfather clause, literacy tests, poll tax
Glass ceiling?- limit on advancement for women
2016- Hillary against trump, thought she’d win so she had a post election rally at a building with glass ceiling (was gonna “break it”)
Old immigrants- germany and ireland
New ones- Italy and Russia (southern and eastern europe)
Dates from old to new: 1890 (end of battles w natives)
Immigrant comes to U.S., where do I send kids- settlement houses (hull house)- operated by Jane Adams
If I don’t send kids where else if I don’t have money- send them to work in factories (shoemakers, textile industry, coal mines)
People question dangerous work- women (middle class)
They try to reform and get rid of child labor, alcohol, advocate for suffrage
Social gospel movement
Easy to justify- social darwinism (people fit to do things better than others)
Excess-
Bimetallism- not enough money and circulation for farmers
Paying back will be lower
Homestead strike
Unions- successful, unsuccessful
Carnegie- vertical, rockefeller- horizontal