Contract and Finance Company with the Central Pacific. Federal subsidies came with a catch; the railroad companies had to carry government freight‚ troops‚ and mail at substantially reduced rates‚ saving the federal government nearly $1 billion. The Pullman cars revolutionized distance travel. Linking the Nation via Truck Lines Four main truck lines categorized the Northeast: The Baltimore and Ohio (B & O) reached Chicago‚ The Erie Railroad (NY to Chicago)‚ The New York Central Railroad (Cornelius
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EMERGENCE OF INDUSTRIAL AMERICA Western mining – Wealth of ____________________________________________ necessary for industrial production [Silver – NEV/Klondike gold/Mesabi Range Immigration – Immigrants (southern & eastern Europe) provide a large _____________ force Gov’t _________________ & tax concessions to rr’s – Transport raw materials & finished products‚ as well as settlers‚ to create national markets Advances in communication – Telegraph‚ telephone‚ typewriter‚ & mail service improved
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Populists: Grew from the Farmer’s Alliance Free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at 16:1 ratio Increased circulating medium (no less that $50 per capita) Graduated income tax It was big in the 1890s (major electoral victories) Several members of the House of Representatives and the election of 1 U.S. senator Against monopolies More Democratic government (more control to people) Wanted more direct government action to help the working class Government ownership of railroads‚ telegraph
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DBQ: Organized Labor Movement By 1900‚ the United States had become the number one industrial power in the world. One factor that allowed the country to climb to its prime position was its abundant labor supply‚ largely composed of immigrants who had arrived between 1865 and 1900. However‚ the spot came at a cost; laborers were working long hours for low wages under poor conditions for the dominating monopolies of the time. Hoping to better these undesirable situations‚ multiple labor unions would
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Progressive Era: Working Class Workers during the gilded age were marginalized by their working conditions‚ low income‚ and limited working hours. To overcome the marginalization for the working class‚ they created labor movements and went on strikes. Although the workers had created many strikes and labor unions‚ they were at the least successful. Workers were marginalized by the poor working conditions they had. A lot of the time the workers feared going
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The so-called "Indian Wars" took place roughly from 1864-1890 (from the Sand Creek Massacre to the Battle of Wounded Knee). It was really less of a war than a long series of skirmishes‚ battles‚ and massacres. At first‚ the Indians actually had the advantage because their arrows could be fired more rapidly than a muzzle-loading rifle. The invention of the Colt .45 revolver (the six-shooter by Samuel Colt) and Winchester repeating rifle changed this. Notably‚ one-fifth of the U.S. Army out West
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Published (1852) March 4th 1853- March 4th 1857 Franklin Pierce Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) March 4th 1857-March 4th 1861 James Buchanan Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)‚ Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) March 4th 1861-April 15th 1865 Abraham Lincoln Homestead Act (1862)‚ Battle of Antietam (1862)‚ Freedmen’s Bureau created (1865)‚ Surrender at Appomattox (1865) April 15th 1865-March 4th 1869 Andrew Johnson March 4th 1869-March 4th 1877 Ulysses S. Grant Transcontinental Railroad opened (1869)‚ Whiskey
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1. Jamestown‚ 1607 2. First Africans brought to Virginia‚ 1619 3. Mayflower Compact‚ 1620 4. Great Migration of Puritans to Massachusetts‚ 1630s and 1640s 5. Roger Williams established Rhode Island‚ 1636 6. William Penn established Pennsylvania‚ 1681 7. Salem witch trials‚ 1692 8. James Oglethorpe established Georgia‚ 1732 9. Jonathan Edwards sparked the Great Awakening‚ 17349 10. The French and Indian War‚ 1754-63 11. Proclamation of 1763 12. Stamp Act‚ 1765-66
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The United States became an industrial power by tapping North America’s vast natural resources‚ including minerals‚ lumber and coal‚ particularly in the newly developed west. Industries that had once depended on waterpower began to use prodigious amounts of coal. Steam engines replaced human and animal labor‚ and kerosene replaced whale oil and wood. By 1900‚ America’s factories and urban homes were converting to electric power. Dependence on fossil fuels (oil‚ coal‚ natural gas)‚ which powered machines
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The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution The Clash of Cultures on the Plains The West‚ after the Civil War‚ was still largely untamed. It was inhabited by Indians‚ buffalo‚ coyotes‚ Mexicans‚ and Mormons. The American Indians found themselves caught in between their own traditions and the westward-pushing white man. Indians fought one another as with the Comanche over the Apache‚ the Chippewa over the Cheyenne‚ and the Sioux over the Crow‚ Kiowa‚ and Pawnee
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