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Period 6
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union of skilled laborers formed by Samuel Gompers in 1866
1955 merge -> afl-cio
Populist Party
Economic disparity, political fairness, social equality, and workplace reform became the driving forces behind the Populist movement
Chinese Exclusion Act
1882, signed by President Chester A. Arthur.
First significant law restricting immigration into the United States.
This act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the United States.
Interstate Commerce Act
addressed the problem of railroad monopolies by setting guidelines for how the railroads could do business
helped farmers
constitutional precedent
Haymarket Riot
Violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago that dramatized the labour movement's struggle for recognition. Radical unionists had called a mass meeting in Haymarket Square to protest police brutality in a strike action.
Great Railroad Strike 1877
West Virginia, after the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad cut wages for the third time in a year
about 1,000 people had gone to jail and some 100 had been killed. In the end the strike accomplished very little.
Compromise of 1877
effectively ended the Reconstruction era
an informal, unwritten deal that settled the disputed 1876 U.S. Presidential election; through it Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was awarded the White House on the understanding that he would remove the federal troops from South Carolina, Florida and Louisiana
Turner's Thesis
in 1893 stated that America was formed by the American frontier. The Turner Thesis stressed the process of the pioneers moving the frontier line and the democracy as a result of the Frontier.
Knights of Labor
down after Haymarket Square riot
powerful labor rights body
craft + skilled
8hr workday, labor policy govt level
Vertical, Horizontal Inegration
Horizontal integration helps acquire control over the market, but vertical integration helps gain control over the whole industry.
social Darwinism
the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better
Carnegie, Gospel of Wealth
Social Gospel
the religious wing of the progressive movement which had the aim of combating injustice, suffering and poverty in society
Half-breeds
Patrongage reform
'new" immigrants
1880s-1920
immigrants from southern and eastern Europe; Poland, Italy, Greece, Hungary
Dawes Act
Goal: assimilation
authorized the President to break up reservation land
Carver
American agricultural scientist and inventor who promoted alternative crops to cotton and methods to prevent soil depletion. He was one of the most prominent black scientists of the early 20th century.
Eugene Debs
American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States
Stalwarts
Stalwarts were in favor of political machines and spoils system-style patronage
Plessy v. Ferguson
separate but equal
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
combined five different cases that revolved around the 1875 Civil Rights Act
guaranteed all persons the enjoyment of transportation facilities, in hotels and inns and in theaters and places of public amusement regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude
Omaha Platform
increase the coinage of silver and gold at a 16:1 ratio
The Omaha Platform suggested a federal loans system so that farmers could get the money they needed
The platform also called for the elimination of private banks.
Pendleton Act
patronage reform
provided for selection of some government employees by competitive exams rather than ties to politicians
Mugwumps
Republican political activists in the United States who were intensely opposed to political corruption
Jane Addams
Hull House
important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States
Sherman Antitrust Act
first Federal act that outlawed monopolistic business practices
bans cooperation that hurt interstate commerce
Atlanta Compromise
Booker T. Washington speech
Praising the South for some of the opportunities it had given Blacks since emancipation, Washington asked whites to trust Blacks and provide them with opportunities so that both races could advance in industry and agriculture
laissez-faire
Hands-off, free mkts
Wells
American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement
NAACP co-founder