How the West Was Won

The Factory System

Oct 30, 1789

There were machines that helped make things but there were alot of them so they had tp be at the same place pluged into the same power source. This put into effect child labor. There were many deaths becauss of how many machine there were.

The growth of railroads

Jan 1, 1800

The growth of railroads incressed movement, and help trasport matirals. The growth of railroads was a posative thing for the most part. The one thing that was bad about it was that at the beggining somepeople got ran over by the railroads.

Urbanization

Oct 30, 1800

The rapid growth of population. In a town when it gets to many people. And there are not enuf jobs for people to do and not enuf houses for people to stay.

Vertical Integration

Oct 31, 1800

This is to bring stability to the steel industry.

Boss Tweed

Period: Apr 3, 1823 to Apr 12, 1878

He was a Democratic politician. He ensured that his constituents, who were mostly immigrants, were given jobs, orphanages, hospitals, and shelter.

Andrew Carnegie

Period: Nov 25, 1835 to Aug 11, 1919

He was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry.

John D Rockefeller

Period: Jul 8, 1839 to May 23, 1937

He was the founder of the Standard Oil Company, which dominated the oil industry and was the first great U.S. business trust.

Manifest Destiny

Jan 1, 1845

Anglos felt that god gave the a chance to tale over land and make it there own.

Eugene V. Debs

Period: Nov 5, 1855 to Oct 20, 1926

One of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States

Teddy Roosevelt

Period: Oct 27, 1858 to Jan 6, 1919

He made up and launched something known as the Square Deal.

Americanization

Oct 30, 1860

Kinda like immiagration. Influance from america on other contires.

Political Machines

Oct 31, 1860

Tightly organized groups of politicians that controlled the political parties in urban areas often in ethnic neighborhoods.

The Homestead Act

Oct 29, 1862

You have to pay $10 to start building a house and a lot of people did it because it was worth it.

Industrialization in the Gilded Age

Oct 30, 1869

Decressed in produceing food by hand but incressed by making food with machines. There were many diffrent michines which made jobs also.

Settlement of the West

Oct 29, 1870

Anglos came to the west and settled becuase of many diffrent pull factors. Like jobs, freedom, adventure and religon.

New Inventions

Oct 31, 1870

There were many diffrent inventions in the gilded age. There are still may things that we use from the gilded age.

Labor Unions

Oct 31, 1870

The pace of immigration to America, curtailed during the Civil War era.

Barbed Wire

Oct 31, 1874

Joseph Glidden is the guy that Invented the barbed wire. And it is a wire that you can put around something like a farm or house to keep things from getting in or out. Because it hurts when you touch it.

The American Dream

Oct 30, 1877

The american dream is freedom. People want to come here and be free. they can habe relious freedom and have rights.

Political Corruption

Oct 31, 1877

there are scandles and corruption. And there are reforms.

Upton Sinclair

Period: Sep 20, 1878 to Nov 15, 1968

He was an American author that wrote a lot of books. His most famus one is called The Jungle. This book had powerful effect on the federal policy.

immigration

Oct 30, 1878

when native americans arent aloud to live on the land. Some got really hirt when they would try.

Bessemer Process

Oct 31, 1879

This was the first real inexpansive process for the mass production of steal. Blasting compressed air through molten iron to burn out excess carbon.

Nativism

Oct 30, 1880

People went crazy they demanded for immigration.

Haymarket Riot

Oct 31, 1886

A bomb is thrown at a squad of policemen attempting to break up a labor rally. The police responded with wild gunfire.

The Dawes Act Federal Indian Policy

Oct 30, 1887

This broke up tribles. It made the native americans follow laws and made them think that they can become a american.

Trust

Oct 31, 1890

Way to get around laws prohibiting monopolies.

Antitrust

Oct 31, 1890

Increased international cooperation and enforcement at levels never before seen.

Assimilation

Oct 30, 1893

diffrent people coming together to become a nation. With that being said they were forced with assimilation! They made native americans forget about there tribe and there ways.

The invention of the Automobile

Oct 31, 1894

This provited trasportation and can get people or food or machines where they need to be. This imporved mant things.

Pure Food and Drug Act

Oct 30, 1906

The U.S Department had limited the food and drugs that we getting moved around.

Assembly Line

Oct 31, 1914

Hery Ford was one who did the assembly line. Assembly line is when there is a line of peopple who do diffrent things to form one product.

Social Darwinism

Oct 31, 1944

Social Darwinism was used in the ideological war effort against fascism to denote a reactionary creed which promoted competitive strife and racism.

The Battle Of Wounded Knee

Oct 30, 1973

There was a clash between flderal groups. There was 150 native americans killed.

Eugenics

Oct 31, 1977

Improving human population by controled breeding. Like when they try and get native americans to brcome something that they are not forceing them to do thing. like go to boarding school.