Monday:
continuing presentations:
Railroads span time and space:
- the railroad untied the united states
- 1865 the railroad reached Mississippi
- 10 miles of railroad a day
Transcontinental railroad:
- went from Omaha across the rocky mountains and into California
Romance and Reality:
- you could go anywhere at a price
- continental railroad
- $136-first class
- $110- second class
- $65-third class
The grange laws:
- railroads mistreated the farmers
- granger laws helped farmers
- it made the prices to ship things on the railroad
- Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota
Interstate commerce act:
- business were closed
- left 4 million people out of jobs
6-3:
Andrew Carnegie
- Scotland to us- 1848, 13 years of age
- he joined the steel industry
- he bought out other companies
- owned everything
Vertical and Horizontal Integration:'
vertical- they own everything
horizontal- you own only one thing like all the oil company
Monopoly-
Sherman anti trust act:
- rules out Monopoly
- 1890
Social Darwinism:
- weaker die off
- stronger live
- survivor of the richest
Union Movement Diverge:
- created to protect workers
- spread and split into 2 factions
Industrial Unionism:
- organized everyone regardless of skill
- more leverage bargaining and strike situations
craft unionism:
- separate things
Strike turns violent:
- July 14 877
- 10% wage cut 3rd time
- stopping trade between states
Labor unions:
- long hours
- little pay
- bad conditions
- children worked as well
- people came together
- sweat shop
The amwrican rederation of labor:
- samuel gompers
- average wages rose
- unionize industries
- 17.50 to 24$ a weak
Collective Bargaining:
- Gompers as its president, focused on collective bargaining or negotiation
- successful strike helped
Pullman strike:
- in 1893 the Pullman company laid off 3,000 of the 5,800 employees
- on may 11, 1894 nearly 4,000 employees went on strike
Woman organization:
- Mary Harris Jones
Tuesday:
Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture?
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
- we forced them onto smaller plains
- we went to war against them
- white people trying to get them to be like them
-Describe a cowboy's life.
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
- helped bring people out west and brought food and others out west
- homestead act- people went west
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
- lonely
- bad weather
- hard work
- native americans
- debt
- railroad prices
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
same as 5.2
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
populist- help farmers out of debt, people greater voice in government etc.
Ch. 6.1:
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?
- tons of natural resources- why were they important- so you can make stuff
- government helped business
- cities were growing
- laissez faire- government staying out of businesses
- immigrants provided cheap labor
- oil boom
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?
- electricity
Ch. 6.2:
-What impact did railroads have on the US?
- settle the west
- brought people to west
- country smaller
- it brought about time zones
-Why were many people upset with the railroads?
- killed buffalo
- to pricey
-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?
- state laws or granger laws
- passed laws so things were even with rich people and farmers
Ch. 6.3:
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie. .......carnegie steel- his company
they started from poor families
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller..............standard oil- hist company
they started from poor families
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).
- how are they formed:
-How did the government try to regulate business?
sherman anti trust act- made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?
helped get better work conditions and pay
why do we have labor day?
because of the people who were int he labor unions
Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.
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