Unit 8 Glided Age
Inventions
George Washington Carver: 300 uses of peanuts
Wright Brother: Airplane
Sarah Boone: Ironing Board
Elisha Graves Otis: Elevator
Lewis H. Latimer: Carbonated Light Blub
Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone
William Davis: Refrigerated Railcar
Mary Walton: Pollution Reducing Device
Captains of Industry and Monopolies
Andrew Carnegie owns a steel company and he eliminated companies through vertical integration
Cornelis Vanderbilt owned shipping & railroads and he eliminated everyone using vertical integration
JP Morgan owned banker & financier he eliminated his competition by bailing out the US government
John D. Rockefeller founded standard oil and created an oil monopoly and eliminated competition through horizontal integration
Labor
Great Railroad Stike of 1877
Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago 1886
Homestead Strike Pennsylvania - 1892
Pullman Strike - 1894
The workers went to strike because the companies were cutting wages, and not treating them well. The government was supporting the management and the workers. The Labor Unions didn’t achieve much but a lot of workers were killed.
Immigration
PUSH FACTORS:
Escape from oppressive governments and political persecution
War or fighting in their country
Poverty
Shortage of farmland
Lack of Opportunity
PULL FACTORS:
Hope for better opportunities
Religious Freedom
Adventure
Letters from family and friends
Jobs
Old immigrants came from the southernmost side and they were mostly because of hardship and poverty. New immigrants came from the southern, northeast, and southwest sides and they came because of hardships, poverty, job opportunities, and gold.
2 MAJOR PORTS ARE ELLIS ISLAND AND ANGEL ISLAND
Tenements were not spacious and very crowded. Immigrants lived there because they didn’t have much money and these homes were what they can afford.
Americans resisted the new wave of immigrants because they thought that the immigrants were taking the job offers, were not clean, don’t pay taxes.
Chinese immigrants were targeted because people believed the genetic outcome of the new blood will overpopulate the Americans.
The Frontier and Conflict with Native Americans
Battle of Little Bighorn
The settlers started the war because they discovered gold in native American territory and wanted to take the Native American land for themselves. Custer and 200+ men attacked over 2,000 Native Americans and his men are killed. This led to the Army trying to end Native American Resistance.
Wounded Knee Massacre
The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
Dawes Act of 1887
The Dawes Act outlawed tribal ownership of land and forced 160-acre homesteads into the hands of individual Indians and their families with the promise of future citizenship. The goal was to assimilate Native Americans into white culture as quickly as possible.
Unit 8 Glided Age
Inventions
George Washington Carver: 300 uses of peanuts
Wright Brother: Airplane
Sarah Boone: Ironing Board
Elisha Graves Otis: Elevator
Lewis H. Latimer: Carbonated Light Blub
Alexander Graham Bell: Telephone
William Davis: Refrigerated Railcar
Mary Walton: Pollution Reducing Device
Captains of Industry and Monopolies
Andrew Carnegie owns a steel company and he eliminated companies through vertical integration
Cornelis Vanderbilt owned shipping & railroads and he eliminated everyone using vertical integration
JP Morgan owned banker & financier he eliminated his competition by bailing out the US government
John D. Rockefeller founded standard oil and created an oil monopoly and eliminated competition through horizontal integration
Labor
Great Railroad Stike of 1877
Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago 1886
Homestead Strike Pennsylvania - 1892
Pullman Strike - 1894
The workers went to strike because the companies were cutting wages, and not treating them well. The government was supporting the management and the workers. The Labor Unions didn’t achieve much but a lot of workers were killed.
Immigration
PUSH FACTORS:
Escape from oppressive governments and political persecution
War or fighting in their country
Poverty
Shortage of farmland
Lack of Opportunity
PULL FACTORS:
Hope for better opportunities
Religious Freedom
Adventure
Letters from family and friends
Jobs
Old immigrants came from the southernmost side and they were mostly because of hardship and poverty. New immigrants came from the southern, northeast, and southwest sides and they came because of hardships, poverty, job opportunities, and gold.
2 MAJOR PORTS ARE ELLIS ISLAND AND ANGEL ISLAND
Tenements were not spacious and very crowded. Immigrants lived there because they didn’t have much money and these homes were what they can afford.
Americans resisted the new wave of immigrants because they thought that the immigrants were taking the job offers, were not clean, don’t pay taxes.
Chinese immigrants were targeted because people believed the genetic outcome of the new blood will overpopulate the Americans.
The Frontier and Conflict with Native Americans
Battle of Little Bighorn
The settlers started the war because they discovered gold in native American territory and wanted to take the Native American land for themselves. Custer and 200+ men attacked over 2,000 Native Americans and his men are killed. This led to the Army trying to end Native American Resistance.
Wounded Knee Massacre
The slaughter of approximately 150–300 Lakota Indians by United States Army troops in the area of Wounded Knee Creek in southwestern South Dakota.
Dawes Act of 1887
The Dawes Act outlawed tribal ownership of land and forced 160-acre homesteads into the hands of individual Indians and their families with the promise of future citizenship. The goal was to assimilate Native Americans into white culture as quickly as possible.