Sherman antitrust act-1890
Made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states
What is a trust
What are labor unions and why are they important for workers
It is a union of laborers in a specific industry banding together to get better wages and conditions
Power in numbers
What did labor unions do to get better wages and conditions
Strikers sit in violence
Why did labor unions struggle to win strikes in the late 1800s and early 1900s
All power was in the hands of the owner
Would simply fire workers and hire immigrants who needed work
Would hire strikebreakers to take the place of workers
Would impose lockouts
Would blacklist workers
Workers were called communist or socialist
Labor day
Why did immigrants come to the us
Famine,land shortages, religious or political persecution,war,in debt
Where did immigrans come from
What problems issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here
Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration what were those restritions
In total about 20 percent of those arriving at ellis island were detained for medical treatment or a legal hearing
Step four beyond ellis island
Gentlemans agreement 1907
Informal agreement between the united states and japan
Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800s and early 1900s
Immigrants
Farmers moved to the city
African americans moved to the cities
Cities offered more jobs and opportunities
Cities offered more entertainment
Problems in the city cramped old dirty housing
Lack of good transportation
Lack of safe drinking water
Diseases was common
streets were filthy
crime
fires
Poverty due to low pay at work
Lack of good transportation
Solutions
Electric streetcars-late 1800s early 1900s
Automobiles
There were 300 cars in the untied states in 1895 78,000 in 1905, 459,00 in 1910 and 1.7 million in 1914
Crime police became full time employees of the city
Problem fiers
Solution full time fire fighters
Problem poverty due to low pay at work
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