Exam 2 History Review

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Contributing factors to the Industrial Revolution

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Contributing factors to the Industrial Revolution

Free enterprise, lass ire Faire, new inventions, cheap labor ( immigrants and rural Americans)

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Assembly Line ( Henry Ford)

process for rapid production of inventions

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Working Conditions

14+ hours a day, 6 days a week, little to no breaks, bad working condition

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Labor Unions

Better working conditions, better pay, conflict with owners/ workers

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Methods of Breaking Strikes

tools, lockouts, blacklist, SCAB, yellow dogs, pinkertons

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Homestead Strike

Strikers Vs Pinkertons, 16 killed, 23 wounded

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Samuel Gompers ( AFL- American Federal Labor)

Organized lots of strikers

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Black Codes

Racist Laws by southern states

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Jim Crow Laws

Segregation policies

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Tenant Farming

Africans rent farms to farm

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Disenfranchisement

restricting the right to vote

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Plessy v. Ferguson

Birth of “Jim Crow”, supreme court “ separate but equal

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Westward March

North focused on expansion,Agressive encounters with Natives

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Dawes Act

Fed Govt divide tribal lands, and given to individuals, land given back was dry and useless

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Homestead Act

Encourages settlers to move west

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Americanization

whitewashing

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Chinese Exclusion Act

Discrimination and ristristritions against Chinese people

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Andrew Carnegie ( robber Baron)

300 billionaire, gave out money to others but also took advantage of other business

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Robber Barons

Big businessmen who made fortune off railroad boom

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Big Business (pros/cons)

pros: more money

cons: bad working conditions

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Trusts

A group of business controlling together

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Knights of Labor

equal pay regardless of gender, cooperative business enterprises, end of convict labor

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Jacob Riis

Police reporter who exposed the slums

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Machine Politics

single leader that encourage immigrants

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Tammany Hall

Political machine that operates in new york

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Growth of Railroads

increased transportation, the economy goes up

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Cattle Industry Boom

people start raising cattle to eat

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Urbanization

the creation of more cities and people

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Industrialization

Introduces industry/ large scale

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Transcontinental Railroad

Connects the nation by a railroad

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Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Whitewashing Natives

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Wounded Knee Massacre

attempted to disarm Lakoto people, killed 150+ Lakoto people

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Sharecropping

trapped in poverty, renting tools lead to debt

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Monopolies

One business leader controlling everyone

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