Week 1

By Miya67
  • Period: 1910 BCE to 1940 BCE

    Angle Island,CA

    -Also known as "Ellis Island of the West"
    -Majority of the groups were Asian immigrants (Japanese & Chinese
    -They were detained and interrogated asking obscure questions that could not be answered
    -women & men were housed separately
    -Detains spent much of their time in the barracks.
    -Women immigrants were denied entry is if they didn't have a Father or Husband that are U.S.citizen.
  • Period: 1861 BCE to 1887 BCE

    Cattle Drive Era

    -Cattle drivers started in Texas ended in the Mid-West (Kansas or Nebraska)@ the RR Lines
    -More beef was needed in the East Coast due to growing population in big cities like Chicago
    -New Technology end the cattle drive it was called Barbe Wire
  • Period: 1820 BCE to 1924 BCE

    "New Immigrants"

    -German immigrants came to the U.s. to escape economic hardship & for political freedom
    -Ireland population immigrated because of poverty and famine
    -These people tend to live in cities like Chicago,New York,St.louis
    -These immigrants found work on the trans-continental railroads,built canals and they became involved in almost every labor-intensive job they could find.
    National origins act of 1924 was a policy that restricted immigrants by establishing a system of national quotes
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    North River Steamboat

    Trade=rapid transpiration of goods
    Transpiration= wealthy would use it as form to travel in rivers
    Environment=farmers grew crops along river because it was easy to get them to markets near river forks and rapids
    Marine Diesel Engine
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    New Migration

    Irish;Religious freedom

    economic condition
    German religious background difficulties political differences
    Chinese need work
    gold rush
    most migrants lived mostly by the west coast
  • "Morse Code"

    -Morse Code:An alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and shorts of sounds
    -Morse Code Is named after Samuel F.B Morse.
    -After the telegraphed to the telephone,fax machine,internet, and finally the smart phones
    -The telegraphed routes ran along the railroads provied free land helped us better communications
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    William M tweed

    They used dishonest politicians to gain control of new York city
    support neighborhoods of new immigrants by giving them help and jobs.
    Immigrants in return with votes just how boss tweed wanted
    Controlled Democratic party in New York City
  • Homestead Act

    The U.S government wanted homesteaders to move on to the plans so that they could achieve manifest destiny great plains,flat land& grassland people had the drive to own their own land the american Dream Native Americans had 3 choices they could assimilate relocate or die
  • Chinese exclusionary act

    1st & only major legislation to suspend immigration of a certain nationally in 1892 was renewed for another 10 years in 1902 the ban became permanent American people were scared to fight for their jobs caused segregation of Asians from American and china towns
  • First Transcendental Railroad

    First time American could travel freely from coast to coast Markets expended and cheaper distribution
    people moved to the east
    Forced Indians off their land
  • Nat cartoon about tweed

    Boss tweed suspected of stealing millions of $$$ from the city on N.Y Nast used his character to help prosecute Boss tweed for fraud before public out range turned against him
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    Rise of labor unions

    Fought for wages &Safer working conditions
    it stopped child labor
    gave health benefits & provide aid to workers who were injured or retired actions unions rely on strike and boycott against co. sometime the strikes led to violence
    1st time Americans were desecrate & allowed to join union
  • Standard oil company

    founded by John d Rockefeller with associates after making major progress with his company made his own transpiration once retired inserted in charitable becoming a respected philanthropist invested 300 million to help create the university of Chicago and the rocker feller institute of medical research
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    Glided Age and westward expansion

    the gilded age was an era of rapid economic growth especially in the north and west american wages especially for skilled workers were much higher then in Europe which attracted millions of immigrants railroads unions became important in industrial areas
  • Bessemer Steel Process

    -The removal of improprieties from iron
    -The Bessemer process revolutionized steel production
    ,decreasing coast
    -The process made steel 10 times stronger than iron
    -RR went forther,boilding greqw high due to stregth and low cost of steel
    -The process mode
  • Hay Market Riot

    Low wages dangerous working conditions labor protest near Chicago's hay market square
    really turned the riot after someone threw a bomb and police gov. imposed death sentence on 7 men & 8 were sentenced to 15 years in prison & 4 men were hanged
  • Andrew Carnegie

    The Carnegie argument about the gospel of wealth is that rich people should allowed to use their money to helpless "Fit people"
    lie created Bessemer process steel making
    his fortune in the steel industry the most extensive integrated
  • Hull House

    To provide higher civic and seat life
    located in Chicago Illinois
    founded by Ellen g Starr Jane Addams
    Both their leadership made women more politically influenced
    had more power among me
  • Homestead strike

    -Carnegie Steel Co was determined to break the union
    -Locking the workers out of plant
    -Frick (Companies Manager) Sent for 300 Pinkerton guards but when they arrived they were met by 10 thousand strikers, Many of them armed
    -After an all-day battle,the Pinkerton surrendered
    -Carnegie & US Gov help moved in quickly to institute longer hours and lower wages
    -it also highlighted how difficult it was for any union to succeed against the combined power of the corporation and the government
  • Pull man Strike

    Causes
    Manufacture of railroad cars
    cut the already low wages of its workers about 25% but did not introduce corresponding reduction interest
    and other charges
    happened
    america railroad way union striking
    small group 260,000 joined

    refused to hitch cars
    refused to handle Pullmans car
    result
    federal injunction
    strikes 7 violent reaction ruined his rep
  • Angel island

    Is in San Francisco Bay , Immigrants processed one million Asian immigrants Chinese Japanese immigrants
    Requirements many Chinese immigrants were forced to prove they had a husband or father and were in good health
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    Great Migration

    Pull Factors to north
    -job opportunities
    -Voting was a right
    -push factors from south
    -violence of hate
    -work to survive/No Jobs
    Moved to Chicago,Detroit,New York,Pittsburgh
    migrating of new job opportunities black moved north to escape from oppressive conditions of the south like lynching.unfair legal system ,Inequality in education
  • Americanization Day

    Created to bring together new and old immigrants
    Americans viewed immigrants as a threat to Americans way of life
    immigrants were worried they wouldn't be accepted as american citizens