history 1 Flashcards
(29 cards)
Dawes Severalty Act
Citizenship to Indians if they agree to live on United States land.
Morrill Land Grant Act
Donation of public lands for agricultural schools
Hatch Act 1887
Agricultural experiment stations at colleges
Glidden guy
Barb wire guy
Fred Jackson Turner
Lecture about the frontier and how brilliant it was for democracy
Samuel Insull
Former Edison secretary, organized electrical plants all over country
FredeRICK Taylor
company efficiency focused, management consultant
Muller vs Oregon
Woman complaining about work hours and wages
Haymarket Riot
100,000 labor demonstrators in Chicago
Homestead strike
Workers upset of pay cuts, hires guards to protect factory
Pullman Strike
Reductions in wage caused factory employees to strike. Pullman owned the town
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist candidate, union leader
Founding members of Industrial workers of the world
Henry George
Mayor of NYC, land value tax guy
George Waring
Sewer system developed. Sanitized New York
Pendleton Civil Service Act
government jobs awarded for merit. not party affiliation
Grange Movement
Fought monopoly grain train transport
William Seward
New York senate, purchase of Alaska
Tom Watson
Populist. Attacked big business, bankers. He was focused on the people’s party
JP Morgan
General Electric merger. Merger of steel company from Carnegie. First billion dollar company
Railroads Strike of 1877
Striking workers would not allow any of the trains to pass, mainly freight trainers to roll until third wage cut was revoked
Samuel Gompers
Wanted higher wages for workers and less hours. Cigar company guy with the Federation of labor
Pools
Against monopolies. Certain quota to maintain with share of profits to other companies together
Trust
Companies can buy assets, but one company runs it
Jacob Riis
Reinvented New York housing..developer of the model housing everyone had
