1. Cowboy West
Industrial East
Cowboy west
Industrial East
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Chapter 13: red
Chapter 14: blue
Chapter 15: black
Chapter 16: green
1855 1857 1862
Bessemer Process:
Fredrick Law Olmsted: Homesteaders/Homestead Act:
Developed by Henry
in 1857 along with This act was passed in 1862 and
Bessemer and William Kelly
Calvert Vaux he drew offered 160 acres of land to
in 1855 it was a cheap and
up plans for homesteaders (Settlers that
efficient way for making
“Greensward”, which moved West because of the
steel involving injecting air
was selected to homestead Act). The Act was
into molten iron to remove
become NYC’s Central later strengthened and caused a
the carbon and other
Park. major land rush.
impurities.

3. Samuel Gompers: Led the Cigar
Makers’ international Union to
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1866. Was the president of the
American Federation of Labor
which focused on collective
bargaining to reach agreements
on wages, hours, and working
conditions.
1864 1866 1867
Sand Creek Massacre: on Oliver Kelly/Grange: In 1867
1864 General S.R. Custer Buffalo Soldiers: he started the Patrons of
told Colonel John Established by Congress Husbandry (grange) an
Chivington he wanted the as the first peacetime all organization for farmers.
Indians to suffer more. So black regiment in the Granges purpose was to
on Nov. 29 1864 Chivington U.S. army on September provide a social outlet and an
& his troops attacked the 21 1866. It was the 10th educational forum for isolated
Cheyenne and killed over Cavalry regiment of the farm families. Grange gave rise
150 inhabitants, mostly U.S. to other organizations like
women and children. farmers’ alliance.

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1868 1869
Tweed Ring/Tammany
Transcontinental Railroad: A
Hall/Boss Tweed: Tammy
rail line that connected the
Hall was New Yorks powerful
Pacific coast with the eastern
Democratic political
trunk rail line system. Made
machine. Boss Tweed
shipping able to thrive away
became head of it in 1868
from water for the first time
and led the Tweet Ring in
since the beginning of the
defrauding the city for
nation.
millions of tax dollars.

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1870
John D. Rockefeller/Trust: A
Kickback: Illegal payouts trust was an agreement
from businesses to competing companies used to
people in political take over complete control of
machines for billing the their industries. John D.
City for more service than Rockefeller used this to gain
the business actually did. complete control of the oil
industry in America.

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1876
George Armstrong Custer/ The
Thomas Alva Edison:
Battle of Little Big Horn: A fight
Established the worlds first Alexander Graham
between the combined forces of
research lab in Menlo Bell/Telephone: Invented
Lakota, Northern Cheyenne Arapaho
Park, New Jersey in 1876. the Telephone with
tribes against the 7th cavalry of the
Here Edison perfected the Thomas Watson, the
U.S. army led by George Armstrong
light bulb and an entire Telephone opened the
Custer. This battle was the most
system of producing and way for a worldwide
prominent action of the Great Sioux
distributing electrical communication network.
War. Custer and his forces were
power.
crushed within an hour.

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1877
Chief Joseph/Nez Pierce: Chief
Gilded Age: The
Vanderbilt Family: American Joseph succeeded his father as
period that started
family that dominated the leader of the Nez Pierce. In 1877 the
in 1877 following
Gilded Age. They are the 7th Nez Pierce were ordered to go to a
the Civil War. A
wealthiest family in history. reservation and refused to go. They
time of major
Began their wealth with the fled to Canada and fought the U.S.
growth with
shipping and railroad empire army along the way. After 5 days
railroads as the
of Cornelius Vanderbilt. they were beaten and only 431
major industry.
remained.

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1879 1880 1881
Sweat shop: A working Booker T. Washington:
Wild Bill Hickok: Served
environment considered He believed racism would
as a scout and spy during
to be unacceptably end once blacks acquired
the Civil War and later as a
difficult or dangerous. useful labor skills and
Marshal in
Often workers endured proved their economic
Abilene, Kansas. Was shot
long hours, low value to society. By 1881
and killed in a poked game
pay, hazardous materials he headed the Tuskegee
holding what is still known
& situations, and abuse Normal and Industrial
as a “dead man’s hand”.
from employers. Institute.

9. Joseph Pulitzer: Bought
the New York World in
1883. Pioneered popular
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Sunday
edition, comics, sports
coverage, and women’s
news.
1883 1884 1885
Mugwumps: Republican
Civil Service: Government
Polical activists who changed Mark Twain: His book “the
administration reformers
to Democrats in the Adventures of Huckleberry
pressed for the merit
presidential election of Fin” was published in 1885
system, which meant the
1884. They supposedly and is an American classic
most qualified person would
swung the election to to this day.
be hired into civil service.
Cleveland.

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1886
Haymarket Affair: The
aftermath of a bombing that
took place at a labor
demonstration on May 4, 1886. Settlement House: Formed
Scabs: Strike breakers that
It began as a peaceful rally of by reformers in slum areas
were used to keep the plant
workers striking for an 8 hour to help people, mostly
operating during strikes.
day. 7 police and 4 civilians immigrants.
died. It is considered to be the
origin of international May Day
Observances for workers.

11. Interstate Commerce
Commission: created by
the Interstate Commerce
Act of 1887, it was a
regulatory agency. It was
the first agency to
regulate big business in
the U.S. and was meant
to regulate railroads.
1887 1888 1889
Dawes Act: passed by congress
George Eastman:
in 1887, aimed to Jane Adams: Was a
Developed a series of more
“Americanize” Native founder of the Hull House
conventional ways to take
Americans. The Act divided the in Chicago and a leader in
pictures. In 1888 he
reservation land up between woman suffrage and
introduced the 25$ Kodak
individuals giving each 160 world peace. Was the first
camera. It prompted
acres. The government sold the American woman to be
millions of Americans to
remaining two thirds of the awarded the Nobel Peace
become ameratuer
reservation and kept the Prize.
photographers.
money.

12. Wounded Knee: On Dec. 28, 1890
the seventh cavalry rounded up
about 350 desperate Sioux. A
shot was fired (unknown which
side shot) and the 7th cavalry
opened fire and killed as many as
300 (mostly unarmed) Sioux. This
brought the Indian Wars to a
bitter end.
1890
Monopoly/Sherman
Literacy Tests: A form of
Antitrust Act: Intended to
voting restrictions to try to
stop monopolies from Jim Crow Laws: Racial
deny blacks equality. Blacks
forming; which was the segregation laws put into
were often asked harder
complete control over its effect in
questions than whites or
industries schools, hospitals, parks, and
given the test in a foreign
production, wages, and transportation systems
language. The officials could
prices. This Act made it throughout the south.
pass or fail applicants as they
illegal to form trusts that
wished.
interfered with free trade.

13. 1891
Collective Bargaining: A
process of negotiations
between employers and Populist: A short lived
employees aimed at political party established in
reaching agreements that 1891 that urged social &
regulate conditions. Usually political system change that
it was a negotiation of wage favors the people over the
scales, working elite.
hours, training, health and
safety, and overtime.

14. Ellis Island: The chief
immigration station from
1892-1924. 17 million
immigrants passed
through it and only 2%
were denied. About 20%
were detained for a day
or more before being
inspected.
1892
Ida B Wells: was born a slave, moved Omaha Platform: A party program
to Memphis after emancipation to adopted at the convention of Populist
work as a teacher. Later became an Party held in Omaha, Nebraska on July
editor of the local newspaper. Racial 4, 1892. It represented the merger of
justice was her main theme. On the Agrarian concerns of the Farmers’
March 9, 1892 three of her black Alliance with the Free-currency
politician friends were illegally monetarism of the Greenback Party
lynched, and that theme became a while endorsing goals of the Urban
crusade. Knights of Labor.

15. George Pullman/Pullman strike:
George Pullman was an American
engineer and industrialist that
designed and manufactured the
Pullman sleeping car, and funded
the company town Pullman. In
1894 nearly 4000 of his employees
went on strike because of the
recent reductions of wages.
1894
Eugene VS. Debs: Attempted
Andrew Carnegie: Born in Scotland to poor parents
to form an industrial union
and moved to America at the age of 12. In 6 years he
that included all laborers;
worked his way up to become private secretary of the
skilled and unskilled. In1894
local superintendant of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He
the new union won a strike
was rewarded stock for unsnarling a tangle of trains.
for higher wages. Within two
He was the first industrial moguls to make his own
months it was 150,000
fortune. Entered the steel business in 1873 and by
strong. It added to the
1899 the Carnegie Steel Company manufactured
momentum of union
more steel than all of Great Britain.
organization.

16. William Jennings Bryan:
Former Nebraska
William Mckinly: Nominated
congressman that gave the
for president by the
“cross of gold” speech at the
republican party in 1896.
Democratic convention. Won
was committed to the gold
the democratic nomination
standard. Won the election
but didn’t have good funds
and populism collapsed.
in the election and ended up
loosing.
1895 1896
Grandfather Clause: was meant to reinstate
white voters who may have failed the Plessy VS. Ferguson: in 1896
literacy test or couldn’t afford the poll tax. the supreme court ruled that
It said that if he failed the test or couldn’t segregation was legal and
afford it a man could still vote if he, his did no violate the fourteenth
father, or his grandfather had been eligible amendment. This
to vote before Jan. 1st 1867. this meant the established the doctrine of
grandfather clause did not allow any blacks “separate but equal”.
to be eligible to vote again.

17. 1903 1910
Orville and Wilbur Wright:
Angle Island: A very harsh
Brothers that manufactured
immigration station in San
bicycles from Dayton Ohio.
Francisco Bay. Between 1910
They experimented with
ad 1940 it admitted about
engines powerful enough to
50,000 Chinese immigrants.
keep objects aloft in the air.
The immigrants endured
Their first successful flight
harsh questioning and long
was on Dec. 17, 1903 at Kitty
detentions in filthy buildings.
Hawk, NC.