Westward Migration & Immigration
Hostility toward immigrants by native-born people
Nativism
Reasons for conflicts with Native Americans
Westward expansion took Native American land – broke previous treaties
N. A. often forced to relocate
N. A. reactions = attacking settlers, going to war
Group of African Americans who pushed West, led by Benjamin "Pap" Singleton
Exodusters
This era is defined as the "_______ ____", covered with gold on outside, cheap material inside. Included Individualism, Social Darwinism, and Laissez-Faire economics
The Gilded Age
Group of workers who act together, trying to improve wages, working conditions
Union
This act barred Chinese immigration for 10 years.
Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
Legislation granting all Native Americans citizenship (1924)
Native American Citizenship Act
Southern states passed these laws the rigidly enforced discrimination
Jim Crow Laws
The four major industries that rose during this period (must name at least three!)
Steel, oil, electricity, and railroads
Negotiation methods to convince employer to fix workplace issues
Collective Bargaining
Sudden growth in business and population due to the discovery of gold and silver
Boomtowns
Lakota performing the Ghost Dance led to uneasiness, battle between US soldiers and Lakota ensued (1890)
Wounded Knee Massacre
Allowed any man to vote if he had an ancestor who could vote in 1867 (15th Amendment Passed in 1869)
Grandfather Clause
A term scholars use to describe the practice of misapplying the biological evolutionary language of Charles Darwin to politics, the economy, and society.
Social Darwinism
Railroad company cut worker's wages and workers walked off the job and rioted, resulting in about 30 deaths.
Pullman Strike, 1894
This act allowed people to claim up to 160 acres for small fee if they lived on and improved it
Homestead Act, 1862
Lakota Sioux reservation in Dakotas overran with miners, Native Americans left, George A. Custer sent with the 7th infantry to stop them. Underestimated Lakota, attacked largest group of Native Americans ever assembled on plains Killed with over 200 of his soldiers
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
SCOTUS case that ruled that separate is still equal.
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Held that wealthy Americans should engage in philanthropy, using their fortunes to create the conditions that would help people help themselves
Gospel of Wealth
Riot inaccurately associated with the Knights of Labor; led to the loss of influence of the KoL. 11 people killed.
Haymarket Square Riot, 1886
Educational and social organization for farmers who then became active in economics and politics
National Grange Movement (1868)
Legislative attempt to move Native Americans to reservations, make them farmers--unsuccessful
Dawes Act (1887)
Famous African American educator, proposed compromise, patience, improving themselves before seeking civil rights (controversial)
Booker T. Washington
A process in which a company buys out or merges with all competing companies
Horizontal Integration
Founded by Samuel Gompers. Goals included Union recognition (by companies)—agreement to bargain, closed shops—companies would only hire union members, and an 8-hour workday
American Federation of Labor