Forging an Industrial Society The American West: The Final Frontier Pacific Railway Act 1862 Promontory Point, UT 1869 Cattlemen & Cowboys Farmers or Sodbusters The Homestead Act of 1862 The Turner Thesis Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893) Native Americans Reservation Policy Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851) Indian Wars (1860-1890) Sand Creek, CO (1864) Col. John Chivington Battle of Little Big Horn 1876 Col. George Custer Sitting Bull Nez Percé Tribal Retreat Chief Joseph 1877 Helen Hunt Jackson A Century of Dishonor (1881) Dawes Severalty Act 1887 Assimilation Policy Carlisle School in PA Ghost Dance Movement 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre US Policy in the 20th Century 1924 granted citizenship Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 If the acceptance of the status quo by politicians and the association of politics with corruption accounts for the tarnished foundation of the Gilded Age, what and who is responsible for the “glitter” of the period? Rockefeller Carnegie Vanderbilt Morgan Cornelius Vanderbilt ANDREW CARNEGIE John Pierpont Morgan JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER Workers Strike Back Labor Unions & Strikes Labor Unions • National Labor Union – 1866 -Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Labor Unions Knights of Labor (1869) Terence Powderly Haymarket Square Riot (1886) Labor Unions The American Federation of Labor (1886) Samuel Gompers Labor Unions Homestead Strike & Lockout (1892) Pullman Strike (1894) In Re Debs (1895) Gov’t Strikes Back State laws Wabash case (1886) Interstate Commerce Act (1887) Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) Populism Farmers Strike Back The Grange & The Farmers Alliance The Populist Party(1892) Direct popular election of Senators Direct influence on law through the use of the referendum A graduated income tax Public ownership of railroads, telegraph system, & telephone system Unlimited coinage of silver 8 hour work day for industrial workers James Weaver Election of 1896 1. 2. 3. Significance Populist Demise Urban dominance Emergence of modern politics McKinley (R) Bryan (D)
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