Unit 1 Flashcards
20th century
Columbian Exchange begins
1492
American Revolution
1776-1781
The Trail of Tears
1838
The Civil War
1861-1865
Reconstruction
1867-1877
Plessy v. Ferguson
1896
WWI (US enters in 1917)
1914-18
Industrialization
Edwin Drake owns a oil company
More factories
New inventions
Free Enterprise system
Free trade
Tax and goods coming into the United states
Transcontinental RR
Rail road going across coast to coast
pacific rail way act
Chinese labor, unfairly treated
Official dividing the U.S. into different time zones
Captains of Industry or Robber barons? What are they known for?
Top of the industry - positive/Superior
Robber Baron - Doesnt use money for good
Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Jp Morgan
Capital v Labor
The establishment of unions
Haymarket Riot workers rizing against their company
Amendments
13th amendment - abolished slavery - 14th amendment - granted free citiczenship - 15th amendment allowing former slaves to vote
Immigration
Nativism - Irish, and Germans were treated unfairly getting into the U.S.
Ellis island, and angel island= El New York an california
Urbanization
Tenements apartment with lots of people
lower class living in tenements