Period 6 Flashcards
Yellowstone National Park 1872
The first national park in the United State
Social Darwinism
Darwin’s theory of natural selection to society- specifically in economics and business in America
W.E.B. Dubois
Black Protest Leader
NAACP creator
Socialist and “Talented Tenth”
Think univerity, not trade school
Urbanization
Streetcars
Ghettos
Political Machines and bosses
political entities controlled by a boss that wielded enormous influence over the government of urban cities.
Corruppt- Stole from taxpayers
First large labor Unions
AFL
Knights of labor 1869
IWW
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Workers for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad went on strike, because the company had reduced workers’ wages twice over the previous year.
Monopolies and Trusts
One powerful company will have control of the stocks of many smaller companies in the same line of business
Laissez Faire Economics
Capitalist belief
Government is hands off
First Lightbulb 1879
Thomas Edison invents lightbulb
Wong Chin Foo 1847-1898
Lead Chinese Equal Rights League
-voting advocacy
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
First ever creation of an “illegal” immigrant
Banned unskilled labor
Child Labor
“Homework”
Sweatshops
Parts of companies that laborers protested
Southern and Eastern European Immigration
Southern European immigrants were motivated by economic opportunity in the United States Eastern Europeans (primarily Jews) sought protection from religious persecution
Haymarket Massacre 1886
Bomb went off during a labor strike in Haymarket Square
Killed 7 policeman
Counterproductive to the labor movement
Suspects were executed
Dawes Act 18871
allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands
Sherman Anti Trust Act of 1890
Designed to combat the monopolies that were running rampant in American business.
Outlawed monopolistic business practices
Pullman Strike 1894
widespread railroad strike and boycott that severely disrupted rail traffic in the Midwest
Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896
“seperate but equal”
Legally justified segregation
Annexation of Hawaii 1898
the McKinley Tariff raised the prices of sugar.
Offset this tariff by annexation Hawai
Spanish American War 1898
A conflict between Spain and America over territory in Latin America and the Far East.
Las Gorras Blancas
Mexican Americans who attempted to protect their land and way of life from encroachment by white settlers
