This document provides historical context and information about various events, people, and developments in the United States between 1862 and 1901. It discusses topics like the formation of the National Farmers' Alliance in the 1870s, the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, the Dawes Act of 1887 which aimed to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 prohibiting restraint of trade, the Pullman Strike of 1894, and the growth of urbanization at the turn of the 20th century. A variety of political, economic, social, and technological changes during this time period are outlined.
4. Melting Pot was
An Mixture of people
Of different cultures
Who come together
By forgetting about their
Native Americans language.
1870 1870’s
1870
Jacob a Riis a United
States reporter , Longhorn's any
social reformer, and Breed of cattle from Texas,
photographer who Sturdy and short tempered
shocked the U.S. Longhorns .
conscience in 1890. Accustomed to dry areas
Immigrated to the Mainly grasslands. Also
United states at age of Raised by Spanish
21. became a police Settlers.
reporter assigned to
new yolk's city lower
east side.
5. Frederick law Olmsted was a
landscape architect that helped
design a plan for Greensward which
was selected became a central park in
New York City.
1873
1870 1871
Andrew Carnegie Moved from
National farmers Alliance was Scotland to America to work his
Organized by grange , farmers. This way up to become private secretary
of the local boss of Pennsylvania
Sent out many lectures to educate railroad. In 1873 he founded the
So many people. This was the first banner camegie steel factory and he
Of the southern farmers alliances. improved this factory . By
controlling all most all the steel
industry.
6. Great plains grassland that
extended
Through the west. Federal
Government passed an
Act so that It made the
Plains a vast reservation
For the native Americans.
1874
1875
7. The Telephone was made to
Communicate with people
Worldwide. Invented by
Bell . This created jobs for women and
Also affected office.
1876
George Armstrong
Custer was an US general
Who was killed along
With all his command by
The Sioux at the battle
Of little Bugham.
8. Sitting Bull is a
Leader of the Sioux,
Nez Perce a He was never signed.
Tribal group that was He led people by his
Forced of their land. Strength of character and
Surrendered to the federal
Government.
1880
Chief Joseph a
Leader of the Nez Perce
In their retreat in the united
States Troops.
9. Booker T. Washington was an
United States educator who was
Kickback a deal people made Born a slave but became
Which benefitted one person over Very educated. He believed that
another usually a political Racism would end when blacks
Bribery. Was an illegal Proved their economic value to
Payment for services Society. Also he founded a college
That enriched the political at Tuskegee in Alabama.
Machine.
1880 1880 1881
Political machine is a political
Organization Where an authoritative
Boss or small groups commands
The support of businesses who receives awards.
11. Scab a term for a worker
called in by an employer to
Replace striking laborers
1885
1884 1884
Dumbbell tenements
Were built in New York cit
For immigrants. The name
Came from shapes of
Building of a dumbbell.
12. Collective Bargaining is a process
where wages, hours, rules, and working
conditions are negotiated and agreed upon
by a union with an employer for all of the The Settlements house was
Employees collectively whom it presents. Established for immigrants.
It was a center in an under-
Privileged community
1886 1886 1887
Dawes act was a federal
law intended to turn native
Americans into farmers
and landowners
13. Jane Adams was a us social
Poll taxes were taxes that Reformer and feminist who founded
had to be paid by registered voters. hull house, a social settlement in
Chicago.
1889 1890
1888 1888
Culture shock-
feeling of
George Eastman was an bafflement
United states inventor of encountered by some-
a dry plate process of developing one who is
photographic film and of flexible subjected to an
film unfamiliar culture,
14. Angel Island was a place
that immigrants had to pass
Inspection at the San Francisco
Bay. Now a state park.
1890 1890 1890
Sherman antitrust act
was an act of congress
Wounded knee - a
prohibiting any contract ,
Village in southwestern
conspiracy , or combination
Pine ridge Indian reservation.
of business interests in
1890 massacre the soldiers killed
restraint of foreign or interstate
more than 200 unarmed Sioux.
trade.
15. Ghost dance was a
Ellis island was an island in new religious dance of native
York bay that was formerly the americans looking for
Principal immigration station in the Communication with the
united states in the 1800’s Dead.
1890 1890 1890
George Westinghouse was
A united states inventor and
Manufacturer. received more
than 400 patents for his inventions
Including the air brake.
16. Eugene V. Debs was a
United states labor organizer that ran for
president
The Omaha platform was
as a socialist. Also made
the party program adopted
the first major attempt
at the formative convention
To form an industrial union
of the people’s.
on July 4 .
1892 1892 1894
Ida B. Wells born
a slave before the emancipation.
She was an African American
Journalist and newspaper editor.
Later she became a teacher.
17. The Pullman Monopoly –
Strike of 1894 was one of the most Excessive control of a
Influential events in the history of Commodity or service in a
US labor. It began as a walkout Particular market, or a
by railroad workers in the company town Control that makes possible
of Pullman, Illinois into the country’s The manipulation of prices
First national strike.
1894 1900 1901
Urbanization the growth
and migration to large cities.