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Age of the Steamboat
-American economic stability and inflvenced everyday life for over a century with transportation and trade
- The steamboat made it easier for products and people to get to one place to another in a timely -
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New Immgration
-In 1924 congress passed a discriminatory immigration law that restricted the immigration Asians other nonwhites from entry into the U.S
-Immigration came to America for better
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Morse Code
- Developed by Samuel Morse revolutionized long distance communication -Use of the telegraph was quickly accepted by people eagar for a faster and easier way of sending and recieving information
- It worked by transmitting signals over a write layed between stations
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Homestead Act
- The purpose of this act was to have more settlement's in the west
- They offered free land (160 Acurs) for staying there for five years -People bought the land for 1.25 per acer -The homestead act led to the distribution of 80 million acres of public land by 1900
- It pushed indians to reserations in the west
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Cattle Drive Era
-From Texas to the mid west in Nebraska
-Cattle drives were send to Chicago were they slauther them to make beef for Chicago
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Transcontinental Railroad
-The entire nation was joined with 1776 miles of track
-Countries were able to work together easier due to decrease travel time
-The transcotinental railroad meant that the frontier could be extended with a greatest movement of population
- The railroad made wider vaiety of goals possible for people who lived on the frontier were able to get goods that were previously unavaible -
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The Knights Of Labor
- The Knights of labor began as a labor union
- Knights strongly suppote The Chinese exclusion Act of 1882
- A lot of strikes struck out more than 200,000 workers on strike. Bomb exploded ata workers rally incloding over thousand strikes including The Great Southwest Railroad Strike.
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John D. Rockfeller
- He incorporated standard oil in 1870 . He built his first oil refinery near Cleveland . -By 1882 he controlled some of 90% of U.S refineries and pipelines this was considerd a monopoly -He built the Rockfeller center and donated land to the U.N headquarters
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Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed
-Was organized by dishonest politielans who joined two main goals take control of the city and get the groups own condidule excted do the jobs citys goverment
-Tammy Hall offered hear do the citys new Irish immgrations in return for votes
-Supported democratie party exective committe
-Boss tweed used power and ineivence to spin over imillion dollars from New York city's bank account -
Bessemer Steel Process
-The removal of impurities fliorn
-The Bessemer process revolutionized steel production ,de-creasing cost
-The process made steel 10x stronger than Iron
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The Exclustionary Act
-First law that restricted immigration into the U.S
-The act provided an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese labor immigration
-The act made Chinese immigration permanent aliens by excluding them from U.S citiezship
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Haymarket Square Riot
-A violent confrontation between police & labor protesters in Chicago
-This has been associated with "may day" or international workers day
-Riot created wide spread hysteria against immigrants
- Riot had a lasting effect with the labor movement in U.S
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Hull House
-Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Star founded Hull House
-Initiatiated programs to address poor working condition poor sanitation and a host of other pressing problems
-cocated in a large house in Chicago
-Turned their attention to national issues
-Help immigrant to assmilate into America
-Passed due to Public protest
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Home Stead Strike
-Unfair treatment and demands for employees
-The strike was against Andrew Carnegie & Frick
-Pinkertion guards and the strikes fought and nine strikes died & seven guards died
-The scheriff asked the govenour to send help he send 3.000 millitai men
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Andrew Carnegie
-Made Carnegie steel in 1892
-Took control of the steel industry
-sol steel company to J.P Morgan
-Wrote the gospel of wealth
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Pullman Strike
-Factor wages at the company fell 25% but he rents George Pullman charged did not decrease
-3 thousand Pullman workers went on a"wild" strike that without authoirization
-June 29,50 thousand men had quit their jobs
-Federal troops this enraged strikes and rioters began stopping trains,smashing switches , and again setting fire to anything that would burn
-Pullman strike was important because it was the first time a federal injunction had ever been used to break up a strike -
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Angel Island
-Held hundreds of thousands of immigrants, mainly from China & Japan
-Arriving they had to go there medical exams where they were tested for various diseases they were assigned domitory's were they were detained till entrrogation procss expressing fear & krustiation for months
-They had to be U.S citizens , and had to answer qusetions about their family history.
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Americanization Day
-First Americanization Day was known as "Loyalty Day" was first launched on July 4, 1915
-Was launched in response to nearly two decades of increasing immigrants
-American had a sore spot because of the influx of immigrants from southern Europe
-Businesses percived wages & feared immigrants might help increase of acceptance of socialism -
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Great Migration
- pushfactor-Racial tension ,vidence,poverty, lynching of African americans led to not enough money or work to surive -pullfactor-Job opportunites ,community for African American development of ethnic neighborhoods specifically ,voting was a right -They moved to New York and Chicago -They created their own African Americans city's