Wednesday, September 26

[2Justin]

1. 1. Railroads promoted trade and nterdependence
   2. towns started specializing in tings like chicago for its stockyards
   3. George Pullman built a factory for making railroad cards
   4. in 1894 there was a violet strike
   5. in 1867 the union pacific railroad stock owners tricked the company to get more money
   1. The grangers were upset because they wanted the land grants to be for farming
      
      1. supreme court went with them
   1. the panic of 1893 was the worst depression at the time
      
      1. by 1895 4 million americans were not working
2. The new Immigrants
   
   1. The golden door
      
      1. late 19th and 20th century to escape difficult conditions
      2. promised a better life
   2. Europeans
      
      1. between 1870 and 1920 about 20 million came
   3. Chinese and Japanese
      
      1. Between 1851 and 1883 300 thousand chinese arrived that wanted a fortune after the gold rush
      2. limited by the congressional act of 1882

breakup of the standard oil company broken by the government is my topic for the assigned blog