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PERIOD 6 1865-1898
Life in the 1860s
• No indoor electric lights• No refrigeration• No indoor plumbing• Kerosene or wood to heat• Wood stoves to cook with• Horse and buggy• In 1860, most mail from the
East Coast took ten days to reach the Midwest and three weeks to get to the West Coast.
• A letter from Europe to a person on the frontier could take several months to reach its destination.
Life in the 1900s• US Govt issued 500,000
patents—electricity• Refrigerated railroad cars• Sewer systems and sanitation• Increased productivity made
life easier and comfortable.• Power stations, electricity for
lamps, fans, printing presses, appliances, typewriters, etc.
• New York to San Francisco to 10 days using railroad.
• 1.5 million telephones in use all over the country
• Western Union Telegraph was sending thousands of messages daily throughout the country.
• Natural Resources• Capital
(gold, silver and banking)• US Government support
• Desire: Creative inventors and industrialists
• Transportation System• Labor force (immigrants)
•Oil •Mining •Sugar •Steel•Meatpacking•Beef/Cattle •Construction•Telegraph•Telephone
•Railroad•Marketing•Sewing Machine•Vacuums•Typewriters•Automobile •Salt•Coal•Agricultural
• May 10, 1869 at Promontory, Utah
• “The Wedding of the Rails” • Central Pacific and Union
Pacific
“The Big Four” Railroad Magnates
Charles Crocker
Mark Hopkins Leland Stanford
Collis Huntington
• Financed the Central Pacific• Hired Chinese men to do the
labor• They had to cut
through the Sierra Nevada
mountain range.
Looked outside the U.S.
Asia
Europe
Latin America
Ex: Hawaii (sugar industry, fruit)
Sanford Dole
NEW MARKETS AND RESOURCES 6.1.I.B
New Business Culture 6.1.I.CLaissez Faire the ideology of the Industrial Age.
* Individual as a moral and economic ideal.
* Individuals should compete freely in the marketplace.
* The market was not man-made or invented.
* No room for government in the market!
Social DarwinismBelief that in the
economic world the strongest companies
will survive“The growth of a large business is merely a
survival of the fittest.” J. Rockefeller
Social Darwinism•Social Darwinists believed that companies struggled for survival in the economic world and the government should not tamper
with this natural process.
•The fittest business leaders would survive and would improve society.
•Belief that hard work and wealth showed God’s approval and those that were poor were
lazy and naturally a lower class.
New Business Culture:“The American Dream?”
Protestant (Puritan) “Work Ethic”
* Horatio Alger [100+ novels]
Is the idea of the “self-made man” a MYTH??6.3.II.A
FORMATION Organized by associates and legalized through state charter
OWNERSHIP Stockholders, according to number of shares
CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT
Through Board of Directors, elected by the stockholders (usually one vote per
share of stock held)
NET PROFITSAND LOSSES
Dividends: to stockholders = profitsLose: only the amount invested by
stockholders according to number of sharesLIMITED LIABILITY
Conglomerate
A group of unrelated business owned by a single corporation. Still used today by
companies that merge.
PoolCompeting companies that agree to fix
prices and divide regions among members so that only one company
operates in each area. Outlawed today.
Trust(Monopoly)
Companies in related fields agree to combine under the direction of a single
board of trustees, which meant that shareholders had no say. Outlawed
today.
Holding Company
A company that buys controlling amounts of stock in related companies, thus
becoming the majority shareholder, and holding considerable say over each
company's business operations. Outlawed today.
New Type of Business EntitiesTrust:
* Horizontal Integration John D. Rockefeller
* Vertical Integration: A. Gustavus Swift Meat-packing
B. Andrew Carnegie U. S. Steel
Coke fields
purchased by
Carnegie
Coke fields
Iron ore deposits
purchased by
Carnegie
purchased by
Carnegie
Coke fields
Iron ore deposits
Steel mills
purchased by
Carnegie
purchased by
Carnegie
purchased by
Carnegie
Coke fields
Iron ore deposits
Steel mills
Ships
purchased by
Carnegie
purchased by
Carnegie
purchased by
Carnegie
purchased by
Carnegie
Coke fields
Iron ore deposits
Steel mills
Ships
Railroads
purchased by
Carnegie
purchased by
Carnegie
purchased by
Carnegie
purchased by
Carnegie
purchased by
Carnegie
Vertical Integration You control all phases of production from the raw material to the finished
product
Horizontal Integration Buy out your competition until you have control of a
single area of industry
“Robber Barons” Business leaders built their
fortunes by stealing from the public.
They drained the country of its natural resources.
They persuaded public officials to interpret laws in their favor.
They ruthlessly drove their competitors to ruin.
They paid their workers meager wages and forced them to toil under dangerous and unhealthful conditions.
“Captains of Industry”
The business leaders served their nation in a positive way.
They increased the supply of goods by building factories.
They raised productivity and expanded markets.
They created jobs that enabled many Americans to buy new goods and raise their standard of living.
They also created museums, libraries, and universities, many of which still serve the public today.
Captain of Industry
• Monopolized the steel industry
• Rags to riches story---came from Scotland very poor.
• Used scientific ideas (Bessemer Process) to
develop a better way to produce steel and sell a quality a product for an
inexpensive price.
•Used Horizontal and Vertical integration.
Captain of Industry• Came from a wealthy family
• Bought a substitute during the Civil War.
•Formed the first modern corporations in the oil industry Standard Oil
• Was the first billionaire in the U.S. by 1900.
• Used Vertical Integration and Horizontal Integration to gain a monopoly in the oil business.
The wealthy would manifest itself in an elite class of Americans who lived extravagant lifestyles. Many common
people resented their snobbish attitudes and wealth. In some respects, there was a caste system in the U.S.
1861---------3 millionaires----------1900--------3,800
By 1900, 90% of the wealth in the U.S. was controlled by 10% of population.
¨ Poor working conditions¨ Unfriendliness/impersonalization
¨ Immigrants taking jobs¨ Decrease work day
¨ Machines replacing workers¨ Child labor
¨ Job security
OLD VS. NEW IMMIGRATION
In the 1880s, children made up more than 5
percent of the industrial labor force.
Children often left school at the age of 12 or 13 to work.
Girls sometimes took factory jobs so that their
brothers could stay in school.
If an adult became too ill to work, children as young as
6 or 7 had to work.
Rarely did the government provide
public assistance, and unemployment insurance
didn’t exist.The theory of Social Darwinism held that
poverty resulted from personal weakness.
Many thought that offering relief to the unemployed
would encourage idleness.
Division of Labor Some owners viewed
workers as parts of the machinery.
Unlike smaller and older businesses, most owners never interacted with workers. impersonalization
Work Environment Factory workers worked
by the clock. Workers could be fired
for being late, talking, or refusing to do a task.
Workplaces were not safe.
Children performed unsafe work and worked in dangerously unhealthy conditions.
In the 1890s and early 1900s states began legislating child labor.
National Labor Union
• William Sylvis, 1866• Skilled, unskilled, farmers but excluded
Chinese…• Cooperatives, 8 hr.
work day, against labor strikes
• Founded a political party in 1872
• Involved in the Chinese Exclusion Act.• Lost election, faded
away
• Replaced by Knights of Labor.
Knights of Labor• Terrence Powderly• All workers except
Chinese• 8 hr. day, cooperatives,
prohibition, end child labor
• Several strikes won some wage gains 1885
to 1886• Unrealistic and vague
goals •Loss of important strikes
and failure of cooperatives
• Haymarket Riot—1886
American Federation of Labor or AFL
• Samuel Gompers, 1881
• Skilled workers in separate unions.
• Work within political system for change.
• Closed shop and collective bargaining
•Over 1 million workers joined and won several
strikes• Small part of work force eligible to join.
Goals of the Knights of Laborù Eight-hour workday.
ù Workers’ cooperatives.
ù Worker-owned factories.
ù Abolition of child and prison labor.
ù Increased circulation of greenbacks.
ù Equal pay for men and women.
ù Safety codes in the workplace.
ù Prohibition of contract foreign labor.
ù Abolition of the National Bank.
How the AF of L Would Help the
Workersù Catered to the skilled worker.
ù Represented workers in matters of national legislation.
ù Maintained a national strike fund.
ù Evangelized the cause of unionism.
ù Prevented disputes among the many craft unions.
ù Mediated disputes between management and labor.
ù Pushed for closed shops.
Railroad Workers OrganizeThe Great Railroad
Strike of 1877– Railway workers
protested unfair wage cuts and unsafe working
conditions.– The strike was violent and
unorganized.– President Hayes sent
federal troops to put down the strikes.
−From then on, employers relied on federal and state troops to repress labor unrest.
Debs and the American Railway
Union–At the time of the 1877 strike,
railroad workers mainly organized into various
“brotherhoods,” which were basically craft unions.
–Eugene V. Debs proposed a new industrial union for all railway workers called the American Railway Union
(A.R.U.).–The A.R.U. would replace all of
the brotherhoods and unite all railroad workers, skilled and
unskilled.
Railroad Workers Organize
•May 3, 1886, joining a nation wide strike for an 8 work day Chicago
workers protested against the McCormick Reaper plant.
• A riot broke out and Chicago police officers killed several
protesters• To protest the killing, protesters
planned a rally for May 4
• 3,000 gather at Chicago’s Haymarket Square• During the protest, a bomb exploded
• 7 police officers were killed and civilians killed and injured • Chicago police hunt down murderers
• 7 anarchists were convicted of conspiracy to murder
• 1892, Carnegie Steel workers strike over pay cuts
• Management locks out workers and hires scab
workers.• Violence erupted between strikers and scab workers.
•Pinkerton Security called in to settle violence
• Strikers ambush them and forced Pinkerton’s to walk the gauntlet between striking families.• Some killed and many injured
• National Guard was called in by the governor of Pennsylvania to stop violence and reopen plant
•Carnegie successfully broke up the attempt to organize a union.•No labor unions in steel industry
until the 1920’s.•Carnegie would be remembered
for events at Homestead.•His public image suffered
Pullman Strike• George Pullman-
Pullman Palace Car Co.
• Eugene Debs-American Railway Union
Birmingham-SteelMemphis-Lumber
Conservation Movement 6.1.III.A
John Muir
With President Theodore Roosevelt
• Conflict between corporations and conservationists
• Department of Interior-federal lands
• U.S. Forestry Service created- Pinchot• Forest Reserve Act 1891
Yellowstone National Park
First national park established in 1872.
Rainier will be the third
6.1.III.B and 6.1.III.D
New AgriculturalTechnology
6.1.III.B
“Prairie Fan”Water Pump
Steel Plow [“Sod Buster”]
Allowed farmers to cut through dense, root-choked sod.
Steel Plow
Reduced labor force needed for harvest. Allows farmers to maintain larger farms.
Mechanized Reaper
Barbed Wire
Joseph Glidden
Farm Organization 6.1.III.B• Grange
– Kelley– Laws
• Greenback-Labor– Weaver– Butler
• Alliance Movements– Southern and
Northern– Colored Farmer’s– National
Populists (People’s Party) 6.1.III.C
• Ignatius Donnelly• Mary Elizabeth Lease• Tom Watson• “Sockless” Jerry Simpson• William Peffer
Issues:
1. Coinage
2. Income tax
3. Sub-treasury plan
4. Regulation
5. 8-hour day
6. Immigration restrictions
7. Direct elections
8. Initiative, referendum, recall
Populist Organization• Founded 1890
• National 1892– Weaver
• 1896-Bryan– Cross of Gold
Coxey’s Army, 1894
Jacob Coxey & his “Army of the Commonwealth of Christ.”
March on Washington “hayseed socialists!”
Migration increased 6.2.I.A• Chinese
– Burlingame Treaty– Chinese Exclusion
Act
Black“Exoduster”
Homesteaders
The Buffalo Soldiers on the Great Plains
African American & ChinesePopulations:
1880-1900
Northern cities-industry
West-agriculture and mining
WHERE DID IMMIGRANTS GO?
Mining (“Boom”) Towns--
Now Ghost Towns
Calico, CA
Ethnic neighborhoods
Jewish, Italian, Irish
Saloons
Newspapers
Sports
Recreational
Tennis and croquet
Spectator sports
Boxing
Baseball (Cincinnati Red Stockings)
Health
Water and sewer systems
Parks (Central Park-Olmstead)
Amusement Parks-Coney Island
STRATIFIED SOCIETY 6.2.I.B
Assimilation
Ethnic neighborhoods
Little Italy
Jewish Lower East end
Chinatown
Transplants
“AMERICANIZATION” VS. ETHNICITY 6.2.I.C
Mulberry Street – “Little Italy”
Pell St. - Chinatown, NYC
Political Machines
Settlement Houses-Hull House
ORGANIZATIONS TO ASSIMILATE 6.2.I.D
• To provide a center for higher civic and
social life; to institute and maintain
educational and philanthropic enterprises.
• To investigate and improve the
conditions in the industrial districts of
Chicago.•To help assimilate the immigrant population
• To provide a center for higher civic and
social life; to institute and maintain
educational and philanthropic enterprises.
• To investigate and improve the
conditions in the industrial districts of
Chicago.•To help assimilate the immigrant population
RUN BY COLLEGE EDUCATED WOMEN
provide educational, cultural, social services
send visiting nurses to the sickhelp with personal, job, financial
problems
Most successful work was in alerting the nation of the evils of alcohol and promoting legislation to
outlaw it. • Passage of the 18th Amendment in 1919 to outlaw
alcohol.• Led by Frances Willard
Homestead Act 1862
Morrill Land-Grant Act 1862
Oklahoma Land Rush
CONTINUED WESTERN SETTLEMENT 6.2.II.A
This opened the Indian Territory to the settlers.
What used to be Indian Territory out west was opened to Americans once Indians are finally on the reservation.
State of Oklahoma would be formed.
Sand CreekINDIAN WARS 6.2.II.B
Colonel John Chivington
Kill and scalp all, big and little!
Sandy Creek, CO Massacre
November 29, 1864
Chief Joseph I will fight no more forever!Nez Percé
tribal retreat (1877)
•Refused to recognize the authority of a 2nd treaty with the US Government reducing his tribal land.•Refusing to go to the reservation, he led his tribe on a 1,400 march trying to get to Canada. Trying to meet up with Sitting Bull.•Eventually surrendered.•In 3 months, the band of about 700, 200 of whom were warriors, fought 2,000 U.S. soldiers in 4 major battles and skirmishes
He was heavily outnumbered and trapped.Custer & all 220 of his men died.“Custer’s Last Stand” outraged Americans and led to govt. retribution.The Sioux and Cheyenne were crushed within a year.
The Battle of Little Big Horn1876
Chief Sitting Bull
Gen. GeorgeArmstrong
Custer
PROBLEMS AND RESISTANCE 6.2.II.C
Treaty of Medicine
Lodge Creek (1867)
2nd Treaty of
Ft. Laramie (1868)
ReservationPolicy
Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1851)
• Take away the food source from the Native American and they will be forced to submit and go to the reservations.
• 1871 to 1875, the US supported the extermination of 11 million
buffalo.
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885), activist for Native American rights and author of Century of Dishonor was published in 1881. Jackson also began work on a book condemning the government’s Indian policy and its record of broken treaties. When Jackson sent a copy to every member of Congress with the following admonition printed in red on the cover: "Look upon your hands: they are stained with the blood of your relations." To her disappointment, the book had little impact.
Dawes Severalty Act (1887):
Assimilation Policy
Carlisle Indian School, PA
The Ghost Dance Movement -1890
Paiute medicine man Wovoka promised the return of the buffalo and Indian way of life.
The religion prophesied the end of the westward expansion of whites and a return of Indian land.
Spread to Sioux Sitting Bull killed Leads to Wounded Knee
Battle of Wounded Knee – Dec.1890
Violence erupted, 300 Indians and 25 whites
lay dead. This is the last of the
Indian conflicts.
Chief Big Foot
1. A Two-Party Stalemate
Presidents-Republican
Senate-Republican
House-Democrat
2. Intense
Voter Loyalty to the
Two MajorPolitical Parties
3. Well-Defined Voting Blocs
DemocraticBloc
RepublicanBloc
White southerners(preservation ofwhite supremacy)
Catholics
Recent immigrants(esp. Jews)
Urban working poor (pro-labor)
Most farmers
Northern whites(pro-business)
African Americans
Northern Protestants
Old WASPs (supportfor anti-immigrant laws)
Most of the middleclass
4. Very Laissez Faire Federal Govt.
From 1870-1900 Govt. did verylittle domestically.
Main duties of the federal govt.:
Deliver the mail.
Maintain a national military.
Collect taxes & tariffs.
Conduct a foreign policy.
Exception administer the annual Civil War veterans’ pension.
5. The Presidency as a Symbolic Office
Party bosses ruled.
Presidents should avoid offending anyfactions within theirown party.
The President justdoled out federal jobs.
1865 53,000 people worked for the federal govt.
1890 166,000 “ “ “ “ “ “
Senator Roscoe Conkling
CORRUPTION LEADS TO DEMAND FOR CHANGES
1880 Presidential Election: Republicans
Half Breeds Stalwarts
Sen. James G. Blaine Sen. Roscoe Conkling (Maine) (New York)
James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur (VP)
compromise
Mugwumps
1884
Pendleton Act (1883)
Civil Service Act.
The “Magna Carta” of civil service reform.
1883 14,000 out of 117,000 federal govt. jobs became civil service exam positions.
1900 100,000 out of 200,000 civil service federal govt. jobs.
These are the first laws to regulate industry and big
business.Congress passed Interstate
Commerce Commission (ICC). U.S. government regulated interstate trade within the country. (Wabash case)
End railroad corruption of charging high prices to ship goods
and Rockefeller’s illegal deals.Rebates/kickbacks/drawbacks
were illegal.
In 1890, Congress passed a law which made trusts/monopolies
illegal or any business that prevented fair
competition.
Interstate Commerce
Act(1887)
ShermanAntitrust Act
(1890)
To regulate means the US Government would make laws to oversee, adjust,
fine tune and correct the unfair business tactics in industry and big business. Not take over or control it because that would violate laissez
faire.
Limitation: U.S. vs. E.C. Knight
Recall
Allows voters to petition to have an elected representative removed from
office.
InitiativeAllows voters to petition state
legislatures in order to consider a bill desired by citizens.
ReferendumAllows voters to decide if a bill or proposed amendment should be
passed.
Ensures that voters select candidates to run for office, rather than party
bosses.
State Reforms
Secret BallotPrivacy at the ballot box ensures that citizens can cast votes without party bosses knowing how they voted.
Direct Primary
The Socialists
Eugene V. Debs
Founder of the Socialist Party in the U.S.
Overthrow the existing laissez faire and
capitalisticBelieves in government ownership of business and
capital (money, natural resources)
Government controls production, sets wages,
prices and distributes the goods. No profit or
competition. Runs for the presidency
several times.
Labor Unions
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
American Protective Association
Anti-Catholic
Social Darwinism
American society best
RACIST AND NATIVIST THEORIES 6.3.I.B
social reality
Supreme Court decision which legalized segregation
throughout the nation.•“Separate but Equal” as long
as public facilities were equal
•Problem: Black facilities would never be equal to
White facilities•Our nation would be
segregated until the 1960’s.
“On Wealth”
Andrew Carnegie
$ The Anglo-Saxon race is superior.
$ “Gospel of Wealth” (1901).
$ Inequality is inevitable and good.
$ Wealthy should act as “trustees” for their “poorer brethren.”
CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL ARGUMENTS 6.3.II.A
Philanthropist• Gave millions to colleges
and libraries.
• It was the sacred duty of the wealthy to give back to
society who has given to him.
• Stressed education as a means to better one’s self.
• Carnegie Hall
• Carnegie-Mellon
Philanthropist•Gave millions of his money to hospitals and colleges.•University of Chicago
•Spellman College•National Parks•United Nations•Williamsburg•Cancer Research
Henry George
Edward Bellamy
Social Gospel
Socialists
CRITICS OF CORPORATE ETHIC 6.3.II.B
RACE AND GENDER CHANGES 6.3.II.CWomen: Preparing the Way for
SuffrageAmerican women activists first demanded the right to vote in 1848 at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York.The movement eventually split into two groups:
The National Woman Suffrage Association fought for a constitutional amendment for suffrage.The American Woman Suffrage Association worked to win voting rights on the state level.
In 1890, Wyoming entered the union and became the first state to grant women the right to vote.In 1872, in an act of civil disobedience, a suffrage leader, Susan B. Anthony, insisted on voting in Rochester, New York. She was arrested for this act.
Suffragist Strategies
Constitutional AmendmentWinning suffrage by a
constitutional amendmentThe first federal
amendment was introduced in Congress in 1868 and
stalled.In 1878, suffragists introduced a new
amendment.Stalled again, the bill was
not debated again until 1887. It was defeated by
the Senate.The bill was not debated
again until 1913.
Individual State SuffrageWinning suffrage state by
stateState suffrage seemed more
successful than a constitutional amendment.
Survival on the frontier required the combined
efforts of men and women and encouraged a greater
sense of equality.Western states were more likely to allow women the
right to vote.
NWSA AWSA
Booker T. WashingtonHow do Black Americans overcome
segregation?Southern Perspective• Former slave
• Wrote a book/ Up From Slavery• Don’t confront segregation head on• Before you are considered equal in
society--must be self sufficient like most Americans
• Stressed vocational education for Black Americans
•Gradualism and economic self-sufficiency
• Founder of Tuskegee Institute
Speech given by Booker T. Washington in Atlanta, Sept.
18, 1895, at the Atlanta World Exposition. Booker T. Washington, founder of
Tuskegee Institute, was a black leader in education in the South.
Many of those who viewed this speech saw it as a willingness on the part of Washington to accept social inequality in return for
economic equality and security for the southern blacks.
W.E.B. DuboisHow do Black Americans overcome
segregation?Northern Perspective• Fought for immediate Black equality in
society• Talented 10%: Demanded the top 10%
of the talented Black population be placed into the “power positions”
• Gain equality by breaking into power structure
• Founder of NAACP* National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Begins in 1906 in a meeting at Niagara Falls, Canada in opposition
to Booker T. Washington’s philosophy of accepting segregation.
1. Encourage of Black pride2. Uncompromising demand for full political and
civil equality3. No acceptance of segregation----opposed
Booker T. Washington’s “gradualism”.4. Gain acceptance of white reformers. 5. Formation of the NAACP in 1909 with Dubois
as the editor of the NAACP’s journal, The Crisis
6. Other Black groups formed to support Dubois, National Urban League in 1911