January 13‚ 2013 Chapter 26 Notes (1865-1896) * The Clash Of Cultures on the Plains 1) As the White settlers began to populate the Great West‚ the Indians‚ caught in the middle‚ increasingly turned against each other‚ were infected with White man’s diseases‚ and were stuck battling to hunt the few remaining bison 2) The Sioux‚ displaced by Chippewas from the their ancestral lands at the headwaters of the Mississippi in the late 1700s‚ expanded at the expense of the Crows‚ Kiowas‚ and
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1. Federal land grants- Recognizing that western railroads would lead the way to settlement‚ the federal government provided railroad companies with huge subsidies in the form of loans and land grants. The government expected that the railroad would make every effort to sell the land to new settlers to finance construction. 2. Transcontinental railroad-During the Civil War‚ Congress authorized land grants and loans for the building of the first transcontinental railroad totie California to the
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women in many unions * Blue collar v. white collar‚ skilled v. unskilled‚ and organised labour v. scab labour * Changing requirements increased tension between campaigners * Lack of solidarity Other obstacles: * EMPLOYERS- Homestead‚ Pullman‚ laissez-faire policy before Wilson‚ formation of giant corps‚ welfare capitalism‚ yellow dog contracts. Monopolised industries and focused on profit. * A.A civil rights movement was a distraction to fed. Government. * Introduction of
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construction of “feeder lines” that connected smaller cities to the main “trunk lines” that serviced the big cities. The growth of the railroads also increased steel production‚ coal mining‚ and technological breakthroughs like the air brake and Pullman sleeping car (Hawksworth‚ 2001). Unionization was one of the major social developments of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Unions were the workers response to big corporations. Early labor leaders pushed for an eight hour work
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Chapter 18 Notes The Rise of Industrial America‚ 1865-1900 The Rise of Corporate America • In the early nineteenth century‚ the corporate form of business organization was used to raise large amounts of start-up capital for transportation enterprises such as turnpikes and canals. o By selling stocks and bonds to raise money o Corporation separated the company’s managers from the owners ▪ Company’s managers – guided the day-to-day operations ▪ Owners –
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stop unionization as workers were to organize unions‚ leading to mass conflict‚ eventually causing the middle class to become fed up with the situation. In response events such as the railroad strike of 1877‚ Haymarket Riot of 1886‚ Homestead strike of 1892‚ and the Pullman Strike of 1893. Workers quickly learned that they would have to come together and form organizations in order to over power the industrial owners. The Knights of Labor (KOL) was the first large labor union to be established. Founded
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incorporated and the two ideological groups (radicals and conservatives) were firmly rooted in the belief of mutualism. However‚ conflicts between anarchists and capitalists ignited strikes‚ generating the Haymarket Square Riot along with the Homestead and Pullman strikes. It was then clear that they could not eliminate corporate control. Even with unity‚ the workers resulted in a fruitless effort. Urban industrial workers were bombarded with many problems‚ a major one being long working hours. They
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APUSH Midterm: 1861-1900 Short Answer 1. Presidential Reconstruction • “Reconstruction” = restoring the Union‚ bringing the states back together‚ NOT fixing the South • The idea that‚ because the South never really “left‚” it’s the President’s job‚ as opposed to the idea that Congress needs to readmit states that left • Also a reference to Johnson’s plan: after he became President‚ he came up with his own plan and went ahead with it without Congress • Johnson gave pardons to everyone‚ abandoned
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Iron horse: locomotive Central Pacific: RR between California and Utah Union Pacific: premiere RR franchise Interstate Commerce Act: In 1887‚ Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act which created the Interstate Commerce Commission‚ the first true federal regulatory agency. It was designed to address the issues of railroad abuse and discrimination and required the following: * Shipping rates had to be "reasonable and just" * Rates had to be published * Secret rebates were outlawed
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3. Andrew Carnegie 4. Mass production 5. Thomas Edison 6. Monopolies 7. Horizontal/vertical integration 8. Entrepreneur 9. Corporation 10. American Federation of Labor 11. Haymarket Riot 12. Pullman Strike 13. International Commerce Commission (ICC) 14. Steerage 15. Sweatshop 16. Sherman Anti-Trust Act 17. Karl marx 18. Skyscrapers 19. Push/pull factors of immigration 20. Ellis Island 21. Angel Island
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