American growth? 4. How did Carnegie revolutionize the steel Industry? How was his consolidation different from that of John D. Rockefeller’s? 5. What happened at the Homestead Strike (see Chapter 23 on this). How was Carnegie an exceptional “Robber Baron”? 6. Why did Labor Unions have difficulty organizing or winning strikes? Why were most unsuccessful? Which unions did have success and why? 7. How did the structure and goals of the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor differ
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Civil War‚ northern congressman‚ without representatives from the seceded states‚ were able to pass legislation favorable to northern business interests. How do each of the following favor the northern/western economic system: Morrill Tariff (1861)‚ Homestead Act (1862)‚ and Contract Labor Law (1864) 9. How did judges interpret the law in favor of those businessmen who wished to expand at the expense of others? 10. After the Civil War‚ were the conditions of the urban poor the same‚ worse‚ or
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to radical ideas from their home lands and tied them into their newly found American organized labor. To a certain minor extent‚ organized labor was successful for being so persistent‚ although several obstructions hindered the use of labor union strikes. The public’s opinion was a major contributing factor in overruling labor. According to The New York Times‚ the public was sympathetic towards the strikers of Baltimore and Ohio Road. (Document B) However‚
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The Industrial workers faced numerous difficulties getting their voices heeded to. However‚ their tactics and strategies through various methods such as attempting to form labor unions (AFL‚ Knights of Labor‚ IWW) and organizing strikes (Pullman Strike‚ Homestead Strike) proved to be unsuccessful by the late 1900’s. Heavy machinery played a vital role during the Industrial Revolution. Machines such as the steam engine and the railroad‚ especially‚ created a more rapid system of producing and distributing
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nation had also previously faced a serious recession from 1893-1896‚ and recovery did not actually really begin until 1897. Other factors that occurred during the progressive era: prostitution and alcohol abuse‚ the great railroad strike of 1877‚ and the Homestead Strike. The main progressive leaders‚ such as‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ William Jennings Bryan‚ and Woodrow Wilson stepped in to make a difference. Theodore Roosevelt claimed he backed up the middle class and showed no mercy toward monopolies
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1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn 1877 The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 1880 New Immigrants 1880 Salvation Army 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act 1883 Civil Service Act of 1883 1886 Samuel Gompers 1886 Haymarket Riot 1887 American Protective Association 1887 Immigration Restrictive League 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre 1890 People’s Party 1892 Homestead Strike 1892 Ellis Island 1894 Pullman Strike 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson
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Manifest Destiny and Foreign Policy The term "Manifest Destiny‚" which American writer John L. O’Sullivan first used in the New York Democratic Review in 1845. ‚ describes what most 19th-Century Americans believed was their God-given mission to expand westward‚ occupy a continental nation‚ and extend U.S. constitutional government to unenlightened peoples. The idea was the driving force behind the rapid expansion of America into the West from the East‚ and it was heavily promoted in newspapers
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Oklahoma Land Rush Oklahoma Indian Territory 5 civilized tribes –Cherokees‚ Chickasaw‚ Choctaws‚ Creek‚ Seminole Land Rush on “No Man’s Land” – April 22‚ 1889 – white settlers given opportunity to settle far western portion of OK Curtis Act 1889 – formally ended Indian communal land ownership thereby legally dissolving Indian Territory Oklahoma – “land of the Red Man” At the close of the Civil War 360‚000 Indians still lived in Trans-Miss. West. Most in Great Plains. Plain Indians used guns
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different presidents are introduced‚ many of which I do not believe I have heard of. President Hayes term was from 1776-1880‚ following him came: Garfield‚ Arthur‚ Cleveland‚ Harrison‚ McKinley‚ and Roosevelt. During Hayes presidency‚ the railroad strike of 1887 happened‚ rioting and destruction of property was the result of this first interstate riot. Garfield was elected President in 1880‚ unfortunately he became our second President to be assassinated‚ thus he never got a chance to make a difference
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Andrew Carnegie: The Father of Middle-Class America For decades Americans couldn’t help but love the red-headed‚ fun-loving Little Orphan Annie. The image of the little girl moving so quickly from poverty to wealth provided hope for the poor in the 1930s‚ and her story continues to be a dream of what the future just might hold. The rags-to-riches phenomenon is the heart of the American Dream. And few other people have embodied this phenomenon as much as Andrew Carnegie did in the late 1800s and early
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