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North river steamboat
trade= rapid transportation of goods
Transportation = wealthy would use is as form to travel in rivers
Environment = farmers grew crops along river because it was easy to get them to markets near river forks & Rapids
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New mirgraton
-Irish :religious freedom economic condition
-German religious background difficulties poiltical difference
-Chinese need work good
-most migrants lived mostly by the west coast -
Morse code
-Samuel morse invented the morse code
-it made communication faster , you can send a message from coast to coast in minutes
-it lend to telephone, fat machine and the Internet & iPhones
-built along , rr trackers due to free land & heavy use by the RR company -
Put in jail (span)
-they used distant poiltcors to gain control of New York City government
-support neighbors of new immigrants by giving them help & jobs
-immigrants in return with votes how boss tweed wanted
-controlled Democratic Party in New York city -
Nast cartoon about boss tweed
Boss tweed suspected of stealing millions of dollars from the city on N.Y Nast used his character to help prosecute boss tweed for fraud before public put range turned against -
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William m tweed
They used dishonest Pelicans to gain control of New York City supports neighborhoods of new immigrants by giving them help and jobs immigrants in return with votes just how boss tweed wanted controlled Democratic Party in New York City -
Homestead Act
-opens up settlement in the western us allowing Americas and slaves to claim up to 160 free acres federal land
-created a war w/natives to protect their tribal land from with settlement -
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Chinese exclusionary
1st & only major legislation to suspected immigrants of a certain nationally in 1892 was renewed for another 10 years in 1902 the ban became percent American people were scared to fight for their job caused serration of Asians from Americans and China towns -
1st transcendental railroad
The first time America could travel freely from coast to coast markets expended N cheaper distraction people to move to the east -
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Rise of labor unions
Purpose fought wages & safer working conditions it stopped child labor gave health benefits & provide aid to workers who were injured or retired actions unions rely on strike and boycott against co. Sometimes the strikes led to violence 1st time African Americans were desecrate & allowed to join Union -
Standard oil company
Founded by John d Rockefeller with associates after making major progress with his company made his own transportation once retired inserted in charitable becoming a respected philanthropist invested 300 million to help create the university of Chicago and the rocker feller institute of medical research -
Bessemer steel process
The removal of impurities iron the Bessemer process revolutionizes steel production decreasing cost he process made steeler strong then iron -
Hay market riot
Low wages dangerous working conditions
Labor protest near Chicago hay market sqaure really turned the riot after someone on 7 men & 8 were sentenced to 15 years in prison & 4 men were hanged -
Hull house
To provide higher civic and seal life
Located in Chicago lllinois founded by Ellen g Starr Jane is Addams both their leadership made woman more politically influenced had more power among me -
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North river steamboat
Trade rapid of goods transportation wealthy would use it as form to travel in rivers environment farmers grew crop along river bc it was easy to get them to Rapids -
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Ellis island
Some of the groups that arrived were Southern Europens immigrants had to perform physical and mental hexans to ensure doctors would check the immigrants for health problems -
Pull man strike
Causes
Manufacturers of railroads cars cut the already low wages of its workers about 25% but did not introduce corresponding reduction interest and other charges happened America railroads way Union striking small group 260,000 joined refused to hitch cars refused to handle Pullmans car result federal injunction strikes & violent reaction ruined his rep -
Angle island
It's in San fransico bay , immigrants proceed one million Asians immigrants Chinese Japanese immigrants requirements many Chinese immigrants were forced to proved they had husband of dad in the us -
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Great migration
Pull factors to north job opportunists voting was right push factors from south violence of hate work to survive / no jobs moved to Chicago , Detroit New York Pittsburg migrating of new job opportunity blacks moved north so espace from unfair legal system , inequality in edacation -
Americanization day
Created to bring together new and old immigrants Americans viewed immigrants as a thread to Americans way of life immigrants were worried they wouldn't be accepted as American citizens -
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Gilded age and westward expansion
The gilded age was era economic growth especially in the north and the west American wages especially for skilled workers were much higher then in Europe which attachment millions of immigrants