The Americans Textbook & Chapter 18 The Industrial Society - Lecture Notes

(The Americans Textbook) Great Plains = Grasslands stretching westward. The Spanish had brought guns and changed the ways indians lived. Horses allowed indians to trade with others and added warfare. Main reason why white settlers thought lands as "unsettled" was because the indians never bothered to "improve" it. A discovery of Gold brought miners in 1858. Irish, German, Polish, Chinese, and African-American. Custer: "I want no peace until the indians suffer more". Chivington massacres indians e Sond Creek The Boseman trail homed an attack on us. Soldiers. = Fetter- man Massacre. = Treaty of Fort Laramie = closed Bozeman Trail Red River War U.S. gathered the friendly tribes & killed others. When indians flooded Black Hills, indians. once again tried to appeal to the government. With no avail, they attacked Custer the 7th calvary. The Dawes Act. Assimilation of indians and land assigned to them. Got 2/3rds of land taken away and no money. Wounded Creek knee = Native Americans rounded up and were mowed down by us. Troops. Chapter 18: The Industrial Society! Money becomes available. Gilded Age > Nice on Outside Natural Resources (abundant) 2 pools of labor (rural Americans) + Immigrants!!! Gout Support = laissez-Faire politics => "Hands off". + Tariff Market for goods creating surplus goods. Domestic/International products being sold worldwide. → → Problems! Greed North + East Majority of rewards.. B. An Empire on Rails. Economy based on RR Consumer, employer, and New business organization. RR Ended rural isolation (Stimulated other industries). →Transcontinental RR Linked the nation Majority of the workers (Irish & Chinese). → Problems Vanderbilt (didn't care about Shit.). Competition Panic (depression) of 1893. J.P. Morgan, banker would take over railroads in the industry. C. An Industrial Empire Bessemer Production Stronger Steel + mass production. Carnegie (steel industry). TIOGA Vertical integration (No middie man). Rockefeller -0.1 (1959) used as kerosene Trust monopoly. Horizontal Integration. Inventions •Edison & research laboratories. Captains of Industry us Rabbers Baron. Corrupt Greed, Entreprenuers D. The Sellers Marketing became a Science. advertising focus on women. E. The Wage Earners Industry [unskilled, women, children, immigrants, black). Difficult to adjust to the factory. unions AFL, Samuel Gompers Knights of Labor = Owner Skilled white males = + $$$ Labor Unrest gov't sides with Owners Strikes, trouble-makers. Courts always sides with Corporations. Chapter 19: A. Lure of the City → New landscape Native/immigrant Skyscrapers • Street cars. →Problems Overcrowding Crime. Sanitation . waste. Stench New Immigrants. Southern & Eastern Europe - Socialist, Communist, didn't want to be American. Moved to Ethnic Neighborhoods. Nativism "America First: ← LLO : we don't want immigrants. "Boss" Tweed = Tammany Hall (Votes welfare). =