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New Immigration
Reasons for these new immigration coming to the US, belief that America offered freedom and economic opportunity. Push factors were oppression, poverty, and war.Came from southern and eastern Europe. Most first arrived in New York City, Ellis Island.They either stayed in New York or took trains to join relatives in other parts of the country. Type of work, they worked at unskilled jobs for long hours and low pay. -
Development of Morse Code and Telegraph
The telegraph allowed people to communicate across great distances. The new technologies telegraphs led to was fax machines, cell phones. The general route that these lines followed was next to the railroads because they would have easy access to work on them. -
Americanization Day
Americanization is the process of an immigrant to the united states of america becoming a person who shares American values, beliefs, and customs and is fully assimilated into american society. The immigrants were taken from their families and forced into war. The process typically involves learning English and adjusting to American culture, and customs while keeping old food and religion. Americanization day later turned into July 4th, 1840 after world war 1. -
Boss Tweed
By mid 1860 he had risen to the top position in the organization and formed the tweed ring which openly bought votes, encouraged judicial corruption, extracted millions from city contracts and dominated New York city politics. Tweed had to flee to the US to Spain after he broke out of jail for his corruption in politics but was found because of Nast cartoons ended 1878 he died in prison. -
Homestead Act
The homestead Act encouraged western migration by providing land. The only requirements were to pay a small fee and live there for five years. This settlement affected the Native Americans by taking their land and killing their tribes. When they arrived, they found little rain fall, few trees, tough soil, extreme temperature, plagues, and personal isolation. Drilling equipment to dig deep water wells and wind mills. -
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Cattle Drive Era
The cattle drive trails started in Texas and ended in Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas. Two severe summers and winters killed millions of cattle. Cattle were shipped to Chicago to be slaughtered b/c of high population demand. The trains and barbwire ended the open range. -
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Rise of Labor unions
The purpose was for safer working conditions, shorter work days, weekend time off, and end child labor. Actions used were to go on strike, violation of property, american federation of labor, and riots. -
First railroad in the U.S.
It made shipping and other things less expensive and faster and helped stores become created. Farmers, railroad grants stimulated the movement of farmers westwards to sell in markets. Transcontinental railroad completed in 1869 reduced the journey from new York to San Francisco from six months to ten days. Cattle industry, the railroad shipped cattle from Kansas to Chicago. -
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Sherman- Trust Act
Laissez faire, government was hands off on the businesses. Government should not interfere with the operation of the free market. Federal law aimed at stopping monopolies from engaging in unfair practices. And standard oil was the first monopoly the government attempted to stop. -
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Gilede Age and Westward expansion
The time period was pretty on the ouside @ corrupt underneath. "This time period is characterized by economic growth, widespread poverty, westward expansion, and political corruption." -
The Chinese Exclusionary
It reflected prejudices at a time against in California political leaders blamed unemployment and a general decline in wages on the presence of Chinese workers wanted them to speak English to stay in the U.S. If Chinese immigrants left the US they were not allowed back into the country. -
Haymarket Riot
On may 4, 1886 a labor rally near Chicago haymarket square demanding an 8 hour work day and turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police trying to break up the riot. at least 8 people died from the bomb. the judge imposed the death sentence on seven of the men who were arrested. -
Bessemer steel process
The mass production of steel from molten pig iron.Captain of the Andrew Carnegie steel corp. Fuel the great economic expansion of the late 19th century with wood and iron is replaced by steel. -
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Ellis island (NY)
Groups,Northerners and Western Europeans. Treated, they had to pass several medical and legal inspections before entering into America. Restrictions, Those with disease, or physical disabilities, or have a mental disability were denied entry. -
17 B. Pullman strike
The Pullman strike was a nation wide railroad strike in the united states on May 11 1894. and a turning point for US labor law. Many of the Pullman factory workers joined the American railway union (ARU) led to Eugene v. Debs, which supported their strike by launching a boycott in which ARU member refused to run trains containing Pullman cars. President Cleveland sent military troops to handle the situation.