How the west was won

By Cody Lamb

  • Growth of Railroads

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    The amreican dream, manifest destiny, and settlement of the west

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    Vertical and horizontial intergration

    Growth in managment of the oil industry
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    Political corruption and Machines, boss tweed in the gilded age

    Polictions started to misuse their power for personal gain, and political cartoons were used againt those polictions
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    Andrew Carneige

    Expanded the Steel industry
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    John D. Rockefeller

    American industralist and philotropist
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    Teddy Roosevelt

    Rough rider and 26th president in the us (1901-1909)
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    New inventions

    Assembly line (1908 Ford line), Bessemer process (1855), and Brabed wire
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    Eugene V. Debs

    A Union worker during the gilded age.
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    Assimilation and amreicanization

    Native american kids were forced into boarding school's, where they were then amrecianized
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    Eugenics

    Studies and improbemt of human genes was forems

  • Homestead act of 1862

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    Immirgration, Urbanization and industrialism in gilded age

    Cites started to grow, machinery was more common. More immirgats came to america
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    Labor unions

    Labor unions were starting to become popular.
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    social darwinism

    A new ideal was made
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    Upton Sicliar

    An author who expsoed the meat packing industry in his book, the jungle.

  • Haymarket riot

    Began as a peaceful rally, until someone threw a bomb.

  • Dawes Act

  • Sherman act of 1890

    started trust and anti-trust
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    Nativsm

    Much haterd for immigrants in america.

  • Massacre at wounded knee

    Lakota tribes were massacred by U.S forces.

  • First Gas powered american car.

  • Pure food and drug act

    Enforced pure and clean food.