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Arriving in America
-10 million immigrants arrived between 1865 and 1890
-Most of them came from European countries
- In 1882 Federal Governments began excluding certain categories of the immigrants. -
Regulating the Railroad
- The rail road regulation had begun when Massachusetts investigated that the railroad companies were overcharging customers.
- One of the practices was to offer rebates on the customers.
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Prohibition
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Credit Mobiler Scandal
- Scandals developed when Congress awarded the union pacific railroad company loans and western land to complete the transcontinental railroad
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Purity Cruseaders
- The cities begin to grow; drugs, gambeling, prostitution became part of the big businesses
- In large urban populations it was highly visable and very profitable
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Rutherford B. Hayes
- Ruther B. Hayes was elected
- Hayes refused the Patronage System
- By these actions, he began to reform the civil service or the governers non-elected workers
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Chester gets moved
- Hayes moved republican Chester A. Arthur from an important position of patronage in New York
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Garfield Term cut Short
- Republican party was split into 3 fractions
- James A. Garfield won the parties presidential nomination
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The Charity Organization Movement
- Josephine Shaw Lowell founded the New York Charity Organiztion (COS)
- COS tried to make a charity a scientific enterprise
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Democrats take power
- Democrats chose Grover Cleaveland as secretary of state
- The issues that were confronted for the nation that year were high tariffs. unfair business practices and unregulated railroads
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Nativism
- Navitism won a victory when Congress repealed the contract labor act
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Nativism
- Nativism= a group founded in 1887 targeted immigrants in general as well as the catholic church
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Focus on Tariffs
- Cleaveland lost 1888 presidential election to republican Benjamin Harrison
- The campaign focused on tariffs Cleaveland favored a minor reduction in tariffs while Harrison wanted an increase
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The Settlement Movement
- Thousands of young and educated women put the social gospel into practice into a reform program called the settlement movement
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The Japenese Restricted
- Many immigrants came from Hawaii
- They had migrated to Hawaii to work on sugar plants in the United States
- A number of Japenese saw an opportunity for a better life in America in 1898
