period 5 Flashcards
labor and free labor
Industrialists and Political Americans have made working conditions horrible. They do damage.
Robber Baron- insult towards industrialists
NO PROGRESS THROUGHOUT ALL LABOR UNIONS
was the very American ideology that in a democratic society, every person has the right to labor for themselves and to determine whether and when they would work for someone else.
free labor; Knights of Labor
Established 1869, led by leaders, first big Labor Union, united front of laborers, revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, Social Darwinism was used as a cover for these industrial machines, ended in 1886
Allowed women, black people, and immigrants. Harder to pass things. More violent, strikes, accused for throwing bombs.
collective bargaining
collective group making a deal
the Interstate Commerce Act 1887
created an Interstate Commerce Commission to oversee the conduct of the railroad industry. With this act, the railroads became the first industry subject to Federal regulation.
prevented monopoly
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Federal act excluded, for 10 years banned chinese people coming in, women from being Chinese citizens, gives even less rights
Do not provide a progressive society, American politicians should remove the exclusion act.
Bimetallism
switching to other methods besides gold for commerce
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Booker T Washington
Wants fast motion for black peoples rights. Pushing for better education, end of linching, Black people suffer through free labor, unionized labor. Black people can’t be in most labor unions.
Black people should have economic self reliance, rather than rely on their education, they should know farming and that is how black people are successful. Should go slower because anytime we make progress we take two steps back.
Talented Ten
one white man out of every 10 black men to become educated, with that education the other nine can now be educated.
Plessy v. Ferguson
All black people and white people can be separated and live happily. Integration isn’t a necessity.
De Jure Segregation
separation that was mandated by law and enforced by the government
De Facto
By custom, a situation in which legislation did not overtly segregate students by race, but nevertheless school segregation continued.
Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868
his treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory, but they found gold and took their word back.
Until the panic of 1973, when they found gold on their land.
Custer’s Army was defeated at Little Bighorn, but Indian victory was short-lived
Gaus Act 1887
Carlisle school
White people killed the buffalo, which the Sioux tribe found disgusting. They were given some land to live and hunt on and were not “citizens” but they don’t want to be Americans.
turn native children into Americans, cut their hair, change their names, and teach them christianity and english.
The Battle of Little Bighorn of 1876
marked the most decisive Native American victory and the worst U.S. Army defeat in the long Plains Indian War. The demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty.
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act offered the incentive of full U.S. citizenship to motivate American Indians to accept this change. However, the act was controversial because it also was designed to destroy the social fabric of tribal life and the traditional way of life for many American Indian tribes.
inventors
concerned about their money, they hated free labor because this made them lose money.
political machines
The base was precinct workers and captions, who tried to gain voters; support on a city block
At election time, the war boss worked to secure the vote in all the precincts in the ward
At the top was the city boss, controlled activities of the political party throughout the city
Pendleton Civil Service Act 1883;
took care of a lot of political corruption, created a system to ensure government jobs went to the most qualified, as opposed to the old patronage system which gave jobs to political supporters.
This hurt politicians ability to raise money from supporters, they turned to big business leaders.
George PullmanPullman strike-
Pullman strike- created a community for his workers, praised for kindness, pullman towns. They pay all their rent to Pullman, etc. They went on strike when they couldn’t pay their rent with their decreased wages. Then the economy decreased and gave them less money and they went on strike and had a boycott on their trains.
J.P. Morgan
Gives money to banks and funds railroads and transportation
Country was going into an economic crisis, Morgan helped the US treasury from bankruptcy twice. Sherman Antitrust act- trust think monopoly
sherman anti-trust act
“every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade,” and any “monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize.”
