Dunlap Hist 106 Exam 1
Homestead Act
1862; encourages settlement
Munn Vs Illinois
1877
Western Settlement
1877-1900
when was internal expansion over? (land wise)
1890
Iron and steel
1890-1900
Mississippi Plan;
1890; allows registration officials to discriminate between whites and blacks
Homestead Strike
1892; Pennsylvania
Pullman Illinois Strike
1894
Teddy Roosevelt
1901-1909
WWI
1914-1918
medicine
1990's medical improvement, drop in death rate, microbial theory
Samuel Gompers
AFL- supported wage sustem
1887
American Federation of Labor
1899
Andy sells out (steel era over)
Mobilization
Draft, anti-racil sentiment, anti-freedom action
central power
Germany, Austria- Hungry, Ottoman Empire
allies
Great Britain, France, Russia and eventually the U.S.
1913-1921
Harding
1886
Knights of Labor goes down
1869
Knights of labor
Why is America successful?
Land: us temperate zone, energy resources Labor: immigration Capitol: $$ for investment Business organization- RR influence and running capabilites
Grange
North, Wheat, RR regulation, prices, Costs, Upper midwest, no political preference (ill, win, idaho)
1896
Plessy Vs Fergison
Government involvement
RR subsides, land subsidies, public domain, tarrifs
Andrew Carnegie
RR, cost sheets, steel, understanding of keeping costs low by taking advantage of resources
After 1820s
SCIENCE! TECHNOLOGY
1909
Taft- shuts down teddy programs
1901
Teddy!
1880-1920
The New U.S.
May 1919
Treaty of Versailles (Paris)
December 1914
Trench warfare- becomes increasingly easy to kill
Nov 11 1918
Veterans Day
Scale complexity
above a certain size; something has to change
Knights of Labor
against the wage system; Craft, industry, geography,all races, women
How'd we get involved
aiding GB and Submarine Warfare
war guilt
all on germany
USDA
application of land grant system
La Follete
arguable the most important and recognized leader of the opposition to the growing dominance of corporations over the government. Progressivist, like teddy, protection of large interests
Hyphenated Americans
believed america was the best due to freedom; silent war effort
Wilson's doesn't help
blacks, women, child labor, and doesn't support govt support (social welfare)
Homestead reason
carnage steel
Pluralism
co-exsisting americans
Teddy advocated for
conservation of resources / better use of resources
Democratic access
contracts to give people land to make small economies
Eli Whitney
cotton gin; interchangeable parts
what causes deflation
cyclic drought
Munn Vs Illinois verdict
declare that the RR are effect with public interest and okay for state governments to regulate because they effect the economy
Technology
development, application of science, rise of professionalization and expertise
reconstructed government
division of functions, expertise, efficient management
why did we expand externally?
economic trade and resources
1889
end of cattle range
1890
end of frontier
Wilson's achievements
federal reserve, senatorial elections, income tax, money/credit
Civil Servises (1871)
food, drugs, training, commute, public order, social services
Populist Party (1892)
free silver, cotton, West, RR regulation
Liberty of Contract
freedom vs responsibility, able to make own contract without govt involvement
"new Immigration"
from south/east, less white, less english , less edu, non-prodistant
American Foundation of Labor
graft union, exclusion, supported wage system
McCormick
grim weeper; company rules for private life
1892
homestead strike
Dawes act
indians conform
hemisphere
interaction with NA
Socialism
judism reform, exploitation of immigrants, business controlled by govt, supported craft unions
used in WWI for casualties
machine Guns, Barbed Wire, Artillery
1893
major depression
1905-UFFS
makes carters for land to give to national parks; unlock land and products
crop Lien
mortgage a crop who supplies with food: 1/3 profit went to owner
pacific coast
mountain basins
after 1880
new immigration
new industries
oil and fracking
what did we gain in spanish american war
panama canal, cuba, guam, phillippines
new inventions
phonograph, electric light, movies, camera
Administrative agencies
power form state, legislature to draw on resources of the state
electricity
provides portable power
Gifford Pinchot
rationalization; doing things in a reasonable fashion
Democratic rule
representatives; more responsive to pubic opinion
Illinois ware house act 1867
requires RR to serve diff granges
league of nations
security and disarmament; settling international disputes through negation and arbitration
Plessy Vs Fergison
separate but equal
Pullman Strike reasons
sleeper car, Eugene Debs
1898
spanish american war
1885
structural steel
Thomas Edison
transforms daily life ; electricity
August 1914
two powers formed, the central powers and allies
1920
urban life, applied technology
1910 production
when from capital goods to consumer products
1912
wilson becomes president
Tendency
work someones lands for a share of profit
