The document summarizes key events in the United States between 1809 and the early 1900s. It discusses how Native Americans were forced off their lands in the late 1800s, the waves of immigration to the US during this period, and how America became a "melting pot" of cultures. Various inventions, laws, and social movements are mentioned that impacted life and industry in the US during this era of expansion and industrialization.
1. 1836- millions of
1809-1870 people migrated to
the US
Great plains- left to the
Indians until the Melting pot – a pot
American people had where many things
interest in it. We slowly are mixed and
took the land away from create a single mix,
them legislatively until America was the
we forced many of them melting pot of
off their land it the later cultures in the late
1800’s 1800’s
1809 1836
From 1836 to 1914 millions
from all over migrated to the
US
Culture Shock- in the late
1800’s many immigrants came
to America based on the ideas
of what their friends and family
have told them in letters. They
were rudely awakened when
they arrived and didn’t find the
world of opportunity they were
looking for.
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2. 1850
Bessemer process-
one of the leading
inventions of the
1800’s, this process
was developed by
Henery Bessemer
and William Kelly in
1850, it was used by
most steel
industry's by 1880
1850 1857 1859
1859
1857
Social Darwinism-
Fredrick Law
Taking the principle
Olmsted- A
ideas of Darwinism
Landscape
and applying them to
Architect that
business.
focused on
restoring the
greenery and
environment to the
heavily
industrialized
cities, he laid the
plans down for New
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3. 1862
The Homestead act
offering 160 acres of
free land in Kansas
to the head of any
household or
planned to be head
of a house hold,
600,000 people took
advantage of this
offer
1862 1864
1862 1862 1864
Homesteader- one of the 600,000 Exodusters- were the Sand Creek
people that took advantage of the colored people that massacre- when the
homestead act and received free land made up part of the Native American were
600,000 people who slaughtered even
left to Kansas though they were
because of the innocent, by general
homestead act S.R. Curtis
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4. 1868,1876, 1881
Sitting Bull- 1868 he
was one of the
1865
leaders that did not
Longhorns- Short sign the treaty of Fort
tempered breeds of Larmie,1876 had a
cattle great for vision of fighting, and
producing food and fought in the battle of
helped ranchers meet Little Big Horn, but
the wants of the later in 1881 he was
demand for beef in forced to surrender to
1865 save his people
1868- 1876-
1865 1866 - 1886 1868 1881
1866-1886 1868
Long Drive-along Tammany Hall- was
with the longhorns the place where New
was the long drive, it York's powerful
was used to democratic political
transport cattle over machine was located
large areas of land in 1868. This place
and included a small was known for its
team of people to do corruption.
it.
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5. 1869-1876
1869-invented air Tweed Ring- the inside
brake corrupt group of political
leaders inside of
George Tammany Hall. They are
Westinghouse- One lead by William M. Tweed
of the rivals to or “Boss Tweed” hence
Thomas Edison, he the name Tweed Ring.
invented the air This group cheated and
brake in 1869 and stole large amounts of
also pioneered into money from everyone who
the electrical field of paid taxes.
study.
May 10th 1869 1869-1871
May 10th 1869
The Continental
Railroad- is finally
connected uniting
east and west of
America with railroad
tracks, more and
more railroads
branched from this
one until in 1890 we
had almost 180,000
miles of track
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6. 1870’s
Graft-The illegal
1870
use of political
influence for Ellis Island- an island
personal gain. This in the harbor of New
act of corruption York where
was happening all Immigrants are
over in all different required to go before
ways in the late they are allowed to
1800’s enter the country.
1870
1870 – Standard Oil
Established
Monopoly- When a business
is the only business
producing a product; no
competition. This was seen
on one of the largest scales
in history in the late 1800’s
with John D. Rockefeller and
the standard oil industry.
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7. 1870’s-1880’s 1870-1890 1870’s-1897
1870-1880 1870-1897
1870-1890
Segregation- the separation John D. Rockefeller-
between blacks and whites in Gilded Age- a term One of the Richest
public and private places by law, meaning fancy on the men to live on earth,
this regulations was almost outside but not so he used powerful
everywhere in the south. pretty on the inside, a business tactics that
term Mark Twain uses had never been seen
to title his book before to conquer his
portraying the greed competition and
in society in this time achieve the high of a
in history. Monopoly as well as
$1,500,000,000 when
he retired in 1897
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8. 1876
The Battle of Little
Big Horn- Where
Custer, a US army
official fought against
a much larger army of
Native Americans.
Custer lost 268 men
and his life in the
battle. The Natives
only lost around 90
1872-1910 1873 1874- 1876 1876
1872-1910 1873- “The Gilded Age: A 1874-1876
Mail-order Tale of Today” by Mark George
Catalog- Wards Twain is published Armstrong
catalog launched Mark Twain – A writer, he Custer- in 1874
in 1872 and started opposed many of the said the black
the mail-order common social beliefs hills had gold
system and as such as racism and “from the grass
time went on it showed his opposition, roots down” later
grew and by 1910 points, and disgust in 1876 he fought
10 million through his books. Also he against the
Americans inspired other writers Indians and died
shopped by mail because of writing in the Battle of
independent of “ligature Little Big Horn
and all that bosh”
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9. 1876-
1876 1877
1880
1876 1876-1880 1877
Alexander Gram Bell- Thomas Edison- he The Nez Perce, an
along with the help of established the first Indian tribe are forced
Watson invented the laboratory, and it was off their land in
telephone located in Menlo Park Oregon
New Jersey. He also
patented the
incandescent light
bulb in 1880.
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10. 1879 1880s
Dumbbell Collective Bargaining-
tenements- the process of negation
required every between a business
1880’s
room to have a and their employees
window to fresh about agreement on Ragtime- a type of
air, this is called working conditions in music containing parts
dumbbell the late 1800’s is when of African American
tenements because this negation became a and European style
the air shafts were large issue and major music. It originated in
shaped like unions formed in the the saloons of the
dumbbells 1880’s south
1879 1880’s
1880-1920s
Settlement house-
Houses that were
created by
reformers from the
Social Gospel
Movement. These
houses were
created to provide
assistance to
people in the area,
especially
immigrants
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11. 1881
Booker T. Washington -A
Prominent African
American educator. He
believed racism would
end when blacks
became well educated
and had the labor force
skills. In 1881 he was the
head of the Tuskegee
Normal and industrial
Institute
1880’s 1881
1880’s Importance of
flash recognized
1881
Jacob Riis- A Danish
American who was a Assimilation- The
journalist and a idea of modernizing
photographer. He the Native
used his skills to help Americans and
try to break the accepting them into
poverty of New York. society, many
He discovered the use Americans
of flash for supported this in
photography 1881
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12. 1886
Samuel Gompers-he
lead the Cigar
May 4, 1884- Sued the railroad makers’ International
for illegal segregation Union to join with
Craft unions. The
Ida B. Wells- Born into slavery,
American Federation
she moved to Memphis. She
of labor had Gompers
later became the local news
as president and
paper editor and often she
focused on strikes to
would write about racial
improve working
inequality.
conditions
May 4th 1884 1886 1887-1932
1884 1887-1932
Mugwumps- The Daws Act- Trying
Republicans who to put the idea of
switched to support assimilation into
of the democratic reality by giving each
candidate Grover Native American
Cleveland because of household their own
the dislike they held land instead of just a
for the financially general territory.
corrupt republican Sadly most of the
candidate. land was stolen by
1932 and the act
overall failed.
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13. 1888 1890-1910
George Eastman- Grandfather Clause- Another
developed camera film voting law stating that if your
so that black plates grandfather voted than you
didn’t have to be used are exempt from the literacy
anymore, he also test and the poll tax, but of
invited the Kodak, and course no blacks had fathers
because of the Kodak who had voted and so this
created many new was another act putting white
photographers that men in power
couldn't have been
before 1890-1910
1888 1890 Dec. 28 1890
1890-made illegal 1890- act passed Dec. 28 1890
Trust- a contract Sherman Anti-trust Wounded
developed in- act- passed by Knee- it was
between companies Congress in 1890 this a battle
to form a monopoly act attempted to limit concluding
without having to be business through the the bitter
one giant ICC, but because the end of the
company, instead it ICC’s power was very Indian war
created many small limited and there was and era.
companies linked no clear definition of
together with trusts a “trust” the act
to act like one didn’t reach its goal
company. This was for the time being.
made illegal in 1890
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14. 1894 1895
1894 1894
1895
Eugene V. Debs- Socialism- a political and
used the idea of economical system based W.E.B. Dubious- first
having both skilled on government control of African American to
and unskilled business and property and receive a doctorate from
workers in a union equal distribution of Harvard. He did this in
and formed the wealth. This idea was 1895. He strongly urged
150,000 ARU solution in the minds of blacks to educate
against Pullman some of the ARU in 1894 themselves as much as
they can
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15. After 1900
Literacy Test-
Southern states made
voting limited to
literate men, and then
made a much harder
test for the African
Americans than the
whites.
1898 After 1900 1901
1898 1898 1901-largest steel
producer
William Randolph Joseph Pulitzer- a
Hearst- A man in the Hungarian immigrant Andrew Carnegie- After
news paper business who bought the New moving to America in
and had a large rival York World and 1848 Andrew rose up
named joseph competed against from complete poverty
Pulitzer, he hoped to William Randolph to wealth. he is a great
out do his opponent Hearst with his American success story
with big interesting creativeness with of a man who worked
exaggerated BS writing different hard, became successful
stories. Because of articles, and that and gave much of his
the rivalry in 1898 contributed to why wealth away. He owned
there were more than more than 1 million the largest steel
1 million newspapers papers sold everyday producing company in
sold everyday. 1901
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16. Early
1900’s
1910 1911
Early 1900’s 1910 1911
Orville and Wilbur Angel island- the Debt peonage- a
Wright- tested gliders equivalent of Ellis system that bound
over and over and island but only it is laborers into slavery
then experimented located on the west in order to pay back
with flight of heavier coast instead of the the debt to the
than air craft east, one major employers, this
propelled by engines difference between happened to blacks
They launched their the two are Angle had and Mexicans in the
first successful flight much worse southeast and wasn’t
in kitty hawk NC. conditions than Ellis overruled until 1911
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17. Late 1800’s
Kickback-a method that politicians to
steal government money. A politician Late 1800’s
would tell a worker to say that he
needs a larger amount of money than Political Machine- An organized group that lead the
the worker really need to complete a actions of a political party in a city. They offered
government project, then the politician services to voters and businesses in exchange for
sends the extra money that the worker their support. These groups gained power a few
asked for and because its extra the decades after the civil war.
worker takes some and then the rest is
“kicked back” to the politician
All through out the late 1800’s and early 1900
Late 1800’s
Urbanization- because of Late 1800’s
the industrial boom, cities
grew on large proportions Patronage- when people
causing Urbanization mostly are given government
effecting the northeast and administration. Because
Midwest they helped the
candidate get elected.
This was known as the
spoils system in
Jacksons time.
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