U.S. History

offered 160 acres of free land to any citizen, 600,000 famileis took offer

Henry Bessemer developed Bessemer Process to easily and rapidly make steel, such as for construction of bridges and skyscrapers

• Central Pacific hired Chinese, Union Pacific hired Irish & Civil War veterans
• 2,000 killed and 20,000 injured

George Pullman built a factory for making sleeper cars in Chicago, Illinois in 1880

Charles Darwin (natural selection), Herbert Spencer (evolution of human), William Sumner (success/failure in business)

Merger (buys off another) Monopoly (complete control of wages, production prices) Holding Company (does nothing but buy stock) and Trust (stock over a group of trustees who run separate companies as one)

multimillionaires industrialists who achieved their wealth through "questionable means"

charitable contribution of their wealth

1890, illegal to form a trust between states and countries interfering with free trade.

1892 Nebraska proposed reforms to increase money, popular vote, and eight hour workday (farmers and laborers)

William Mckinley (Republican) - Gold Standard vs. William Jennings Bryan (dEmocrat) - Bimetallism and "cross of Gold" speech

NLU, CNLU, AFL (Samuel Gompers), ARU (Eugene Debs), IWW (William "Big Bill" Haywood)

Great strike of 1877 (Railroad), Haymarket Affair (bomb thrown, public hate), Homestead Strike (Pinkertons/scabs/Pensylvania National Guard), Pullman Company Strike (President Cleveland sent federal troops)

"Mother" ones, UMW (United Mine of Workers), march of 80 children with injuries to President Roosevelt, influenced child labor laws

Yellow Dog Contract, fired employers to swear not to join a union

International Ladies Garment WOrkers Union, by 16 year old Pauline Newman, who supported the "Uprising of 20,000"

146 women burned in a sweatshop

12 hours or more, 6 or 7 days, children/women in sweatshop (27 cents) , and 675 workers died every week