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Reservation System
Under the reservation system, American Indians kept their citizenship in their sovereign tribes, but life was harder than it had been. The reservations were devised to encourage the Indians to live within clearly defined zones, and the U.S. promised to provide food, goods and money and to protect them from attack by other tribes and white settlers. -
homestead act
was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on May 20, 1862. Anyone who had never taken up arms against the U.S. government (including freed slaves and women), was 21 years or older, or the head of a family, could file an application to claim a federal land grant. There was also a residency requirement -
Knights Labor
t was established in 1869, reached 28,000 members in 1880, then jumped to 100,000 in 1884. Then it ballooned to nearly 800,000 members in 1886, but its frail organizational structure could not cope as it was battered by charges of failure and violence. Most members abandoned the movement in 1886-87, leaving at most 100,000 in 1890.[1] Remnants of the Knights of Labor continued in existence until 1949, when the group's last 50-member local dropped its affiliation -
Chinese Exculsion Act (1882)
It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. -
Haymarket Square
a labor protest rally near Chicago's Haymarket Square turned into a riot after someone threw a bomb at police. At least eight people died as a result of the violence that day. Despite a lack of evidence against them, eight radical labor activists were convicted in connection with the bombing -
American federation of Labor
was the first federation of labor unions in the United States. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio. By an alliance of craft unions disaffected from the Knights of Labor, a national labor association. -
Dawes act (1887)
A federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing. -
Homestead strike
As an industrial lockout and strike. The battle was one of the most serious disputes in U.S. labor history, second only to the Battle of Blair Mountain. The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the Pittsburgh area town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (the AA) and the Carnegie Steel Company. The final result was a major defeat for the union and a setback for efforts to unionize steelworkers. -
American Railway union
Under Locomotive Fireman Gene Debs' leadership, the American Railway Union (ARU) was formed in Chicago as a single organization representing all crafts of railroad employees. -
pullman Strike
was a nationwide railroad strike in the United States in the summer of 1894. It pitted the American Railway Union (ARU) against the Pullman Company, the main railroads, and the federal government of the United States under President Grover Cleveland. -
Assimilation policy
it is a poilcy which was usually forced upon indigeous people to change them into their european or europeans-americn counterparts -
Immirgation Restriction Act
was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890. It superseded the 1921 Emergency Quota Act. The law was primarily aimed at further restricting immigration of Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans. In addition, it severely restri
