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Main headings:
- Prehistory
- Colonial America; 1508 – 1763
- The American Constitution and Revolution; 1763 – 1793
- Expansion and Reform; 1793 – 1860
- The American Civil War; 1861 - 1865
- The Progressive Era / The Gilded Age; around 1870 – 1900.
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Art Resource, NY
Appearing in western travel guidebooks, this
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American Lives: Sitting Bull and the American West
Pre-Test
1. The Transcontinental Railroad followed a path along the southern United States to link
east and west in 1869. T/F
2. Buffalo hunting was one of the ways that westward migrants from the United States
destroyed Native American culture. T/F
3. The Apache wars with Geronimo were the culminating conflicts between Native
Americans and the United States that took place between 1878 and 1886. T/F
4. Chinese immigrants provided much-needed labor in California mining communities and
the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. T/F
5. Open range ranching, in which cattle grazed at their own pace over thousands of open
acres, lasted well into the 20th century. T/F
Answers can be found at the end of the chapter.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:
• Compare and contrast the diversity of settlement across the Great Plains and Southwest.
• Explain how the growth of the western economy and technologies such as the railroad
affected business opportunities and settlers’ livelihoods.
• Describe the source of settler and Native American conflicts and explain why the
encroachment of White settlement was so devastating to Native American cultures.
• Explain the ways that the concept of the western frontier has figured into American
culture.
American Lives: Sitting Bull and the American West
Sitting Bull was born on the northern Great Plains (in present-day South Dakota) in about 1831.
He distinguished himself as an accomplished buffalo hunter and warrior among the Hunkpapa,
part of the seven-tribe confederacy that made up the Western Sioux, or Lakota, and his brave
record and high rank among his people led to his designation as a war chief. Also a holy man
responsible for his people’s spiritual well-being, Sitting Bull initially encouraged the Lakota to
interact with White Americans who sought to trade and barter with Native Americans at vari-
ous trading posts established along the Missouri River.
However, as increasingly more White traders, and the U.S. Army, moved into the region, relations
between the Lakota and the Americans worsened. Discovery of gold in the Dakota Territory and
western Montana in 1874, and the gold rush that followed, led to a series of battles that resulted
in the cession of many Native American lands and the confinement of Native Americans onto
designated reservations on the Great Plains. Sitting Bull emerged as the leader of all the tribes
and bands who refused to sign treaties with the U.S. government. He became a ...
Chapter 21 Realignment at Home and Empire Abroad 1877EstelaJeffery653
Chapter 21:
Realignment at
Home and
Empire Abroad
1877 to 1900
U.S. A NARRATIVE HISTORY, EIGHTH
EDITION
DAVIDSON • DELAY • HEYRMAN •
LYTLE • STOFF
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Realignment at Home and
Empire Abroad 1877 to 1900
• “[M]any influential Americans argued that
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needed to acquire territory overseas. By the
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system had taken its first steps toward
modernization at home
and abroad. They included a major political
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What’s to Come
The Politics of Paralysis
The Revolt of the Farmers
The New Realignment
Visions of Empire
The Imperial Moment
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The Politics of Paralysis (1)
Political Stalemate
• Margins of victory in presidential elections very
close
• Nearly 80 percent of eligible voters turned out
The Parties
• Both supported business and condemned radicalism
• Neither offered workers or farmers much help
• Ethnic and religious factors
• Third political parties rallied around a single cause
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THE VOTING PUBLIC
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while the number of eligible voters increased over fourfold. But as reforms of the early
twentieth century reduced the power of political machines and parties to turn out
voters, the percentage of eligible voter participation actually declined in presidential
elections through 1912. Photo: Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs
Division [LC-DIG-ppmsca-19299]
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The Politics of Paralysis (2)
The Issues
• “Bloody shirts”
• Each side blamed the other for the Civil War
• Pendleton Act
• 1883; reform of civil service
• McKinley Tariff
• Gold, silver, and greenbacks
• Currency divisive issue
• Bland-Allison Act
• 1878; silver coinage
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The Politics of Paralysis (3)
The White House from Hayes to Harrison
• Hayes was the first of the “Ohio dynasty” (1876)
• Ended reconstruction and pursued civil service reform
• Garfield elected and then assassinated (1880)
• Dirty election of 1884
• Cleveland won; first Democrat since 1856
• In 1888, Harrison lost the popular vote but won the
Electoral College
• First billion-dollar peacetime budget (1892)
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The Politics of Paralysis (4)
Ferment in the States and Cities
• State commissions
“Despite growing expenditures and more
legislation, most people expected little from the
federal government…. Experimental and often
effective, state programs began to grapple with
the problems of corporate power, discriminatory
railroad rates, political corruption, and urban
disorder.”
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The Revolt of the Farmers (1)
The Harvest of Discontent
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• Obvious inequalities; credit at the root of their problems
The Origins of the Farmers’ Alliance
• Patrons of Husbandry
• Granger cases
• Creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887
• Southern Alliance
• Colored Farmers’ Alliance
• Efforts often violently opposed by white ...
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Consequences of american industrial growth
1. CONSEQUENCES OF
AMERICAN
INDUSTRIAL
GROWTH
UNIT 5 - GOAL #2 THE STUDENT WILL ANALYZE IMPORTANT CONSEQUENCES OF
A M E R IC A N I N D U S T R IA L G R O W T H .
OBJECTIVES:
1.
DESCRIBE ELLIS ISLAND, THE CHANGE IN IMMIGRANTS’ ORIGINS TO SOUT HERN
AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE IMPACT OF THIS CHANGE ON URBAN AMERIC A.
2.
IDENTIFY THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR AND SAMUEL GOMPERS.
3.
DESCRIBE THE GROWTH OF THE WESTERN POPULATION AND ITS IMPACT ON
NATIVE AMERICANS WITH REFERENCE TO SITTING BULL AND WOUNDED KNEE .
4.
D E S C R I B E T H E 1 8 9 4 P U L L M A N S T R I K E A S A N E X A M P L E O F I N D U S T R IA L U N R E S T .
2. OVERVIEW
• As the United States became the world’s leading industrial
power, American society changed in many ways.
• Native Americans found themselves defending lands the
government had earlier promised would be theirs forever.
• Immigrants found themselves competing for jobs and
banding together to fight for decent working conditions.
• Factory workers began to organize unions that challenged
the ways factory owners treated them.
3. NEW IMMIGRATION
• The last quarter of the 19th century was marked by a great
deal of turmoil in Europe.
• Low wages, unemployment, disease, forced military
conscription, and religious persecution inspired
immigrants to flee their homelands and emigrate to the
United States.
• These groups formed the bulk of the “new immigration”
coming to America.
• Prior to the 1880’s the majority of immigrants came from
northern and western Europe. During the colonial period
immigrants were overwhelming English, along smaller
groups of Scots, Germans, French, and Africans
4. NEW IMMIGRATION
• In the decades after the American Revolution, large
groups of Irish and Germans arrived. After the Civil War,
more and more Eastern and Southern Europeans
immigrated to America.
• Between 1880 and 1920, over 20 million immigrants
entered the United States. These newcomers would
eventually comprise an amazing 15% of the total
population.
• These latest newcomers greatly affected the social as well
as the economic and political landscape.
• Because poverty and political instability were common in
their home countries, the new immigrants were likely to be
poor.
5. NEW IMMIGRATION
• Often they were Jewish or Catholic and spoke
no English. Poverty prevented many from
buying farmland so most worked as unskilled
laborers and mostly lived in cities.
• Whether Asian or European, these new
immigrants tended to settle in areas populated
by people from the same countries who spoke
the same languages and worshipped in the same
ways.
• The new immigrants did not appear to blend into
American society the way earlier immigrants
had.
6. ELLIS ISLAND
• Ellis Island Immigrant Station located in New York
Harbor was opened in 1892.
• By 1924, the station had processed 12 million
immigrants. By some estimates, 40% of all
Americans today can trace their port of entry back to
Ellis Island.
• Upon arrival in New York harbor, immigrants were
transported from their ships by barges to the
immigrant processing center.
• There were 21 processing centers. The two most
famous were Ellis Island in New York and Angel
Island in California.
7. ELLIS ISLAND
• Arrivals were asked 29 questions including name,
occupation, and the amount of money carried.
• The inspection process lasted from 3-7 hours.
• As more restrictive laws were passed in the 1890s more
rigorous provisions for entry were required.
• About 2% of immigrants seeking entry were denied
admission to the U.S. and sent back to their countries of
origin for reasons such as having a chronic and
contagious disease, criminal background, or insanity.
• Sadly, around 3,000 immigrants died on the island waiting
to be processed.
8. IMPACT OF NEW IMMIGRATION
ON URBAN AMERICA
• Over-crowding in the cities led to increased
problems with crime and disease.
• Increased demand for agricultural and industrial
goods spurred additional economic growth.
• Low-wage labor was available to work in the growing
American industrial economy.
• New cultural items such as Italian opera, Polish
polkas, Russian literature, kindergarten, and new
foods, such as spaghetti, frankfurters and
hamburgers, became a part of the America diet.
9. THE AFL AND SAMUEL GOMPERS
• Unskilled laborers were subject to low wages, long
workdays, no vacations, and unsafe workplaces.
• Because individual workers had little power to change the
way an employer ran a business, workers banded together
in labor unions to demand better pay and working
conditions.
• Originally, labor unions were organized for either skilled or
unskilled workers. Each group had their own union.
• The unions relied on collective bargaining to obtain their
demands, but, when employers refused to bargain, unions
used direct action (i.e., labor strikes) to obtain
concessions.
10. THE AFL AND SAMUEL GOMPERS
• The earliest national labor union was the Knights of Labor
(1869).
• Members of the union were both skilled and unskilled
workers.
• While initially effective, the union lost influence and power
after the failure to win concessions in the Missouri Pacific
Railroad Strike and suffered distrust from the Haymarket
Affair in 1886.
• Furthermore, skilled workers were reluctant to support
lower paid unskilled workers when the latter went out on
strike.
11. THE AFL AND SAMUEL GOMPERS
• Samuel Gompers, an immigrant who came to the United
States in 1863, was a cigar maker by trade.
• In 1886, he helped to create the American Federation of
Labor, or AFL.
• He was President of the union from 1886-1924, except for
a one year vacation.
• His union accepted only skilled workers. He organized
workers by craft rather than by geography as the Knights
had.
• Gompers also did not see capitalism as the enemy, as had
radical members of the Knights of Labor, and he urged
workers to work with owners for higher pay and better
working conditions.
12. THE AFL AND SAMUEL GOMPERS
• However, he was not above using work
stoppages (labor strikes) to obtain what was
desired.
• Gompers’ tactics proved to be very effective
until the Great Depression.
• The AFL was successful due to its sheer
numbers—some four million members at its
height of power.
13. EXPANSION WEST BRINGS NEW
CONFLICT
• As eastern regions of the United States became more
industrialized after the Civil War, people seeking rural
livelihoods moved farther and farther west.
• In turn, Native Americans had to compete with these
newcomers for land. A series of brutal wars ensued as
various Plains Indian tribes attacked settlers, wagon
trains, and the Army in an effort to protect their lands.
• In 1868, the Federal government reached an agreement
with many of the Plains tribes when they signed the Fort
Laramie Treaty.
• In exchange for land set aside in the Black Hills of the
Dakotas, the Plains nations agreed to leave western
migrants alone. However, the discovery of gold in the Black
Hills of the Dakotas in 1875 leads to violation of the treaty
and renewed warfare.
14. EXPANSION WEST BRINGS NEW
CONFLICT
• The Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 culminated in
the Battle of the Little Big Horn in which much of the
Seventh Cavalry was killed.
• Despite this victory, the Plains nations were doomed
by superior numbers and organization.
• The United States government targeted the buffalo
and wiped the Plains tribes’ main food supply.
• While some native bands escaped into Canada,
most of the surviving Plains tribes were forced to
live on reservations.
15. EXPANSION WEST BRINGS NEW
CONFLICT
• One of the great leaders of Native Americans was the Lakota
leader, Sitting Bull (Tatanka-Iyotanka). He became a noted
warrior as a result of the fighting between the United States
and Lakota in 1863.
• After continued incursions into Lakota Territory in 1876, Sitting
Bull led the coalition of Plains tribes against the U.S. Army
which culminated in the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
• Afterward, a large force of U.S. Army troops relentlessly
pursued the Plains bands subduing some groups but Sitting
Bull led his people into Canada.
• After five years of exile and unable to feed his people, Sitting
Bull returned to the United States and finally agreed to settle
on a reservation.
16. EXPANSION WEST BRINGS NEW
CONFLICT
• The Native Americans believed their ceremony would
reestablish their ancestral lands and repopulate the buffalo
population, thus restoring the Sioux’s lost greatness.
• As some of Sitting Bull’s followers were ordered to be brought
back to the reservation, a confrontation with elements of the
7th Calvary ensued. As the soldiers began to confiscate
weapons from the Sioux, a shot was fired.
• Some of Sitting Bull’s band may have been convinced that
their Ghost shirts would protect them as they resisted the
soldiers.
• This tragic gun battle at Wounded Knee ended in the deaths
of over 300 Sioux, including women and children. This would
be the last major conflict between Native Americans and the
U.S. Army and signaled the end of resistance to westward
expansion by white settlers.
17. PULLMAN STRIKE
• The Panic of 1893 led the Pullman Palace Car Company
to cut wages as orders for cars slowed.
• Pullman manufactured passenger cars and had
established what was supposed to be a model
community of homes and services for workers.
• These workers complained to George Pullman about the
wage cuts and the refusal of Pullman to lower rents for
company housing.
• When members of the American Railway Union (led by
Eugene V. Debs) refused to handle Pullman
cars, Pullman locked his workers out.
18. PULLMAN STRIKE
• Railroad companies hired strikebreakers to end the strike and
successfully applied for an injunction against the unions to stop
the strike.
• Debs and the unions ignored the injunction. Following a
speech by Debs in May 1894, workers destroyed railroad
property.
• Citing interference with the U.S. mail, President Grover
Cleveland ordered government forces to break up the strike.
• Debs was arrested, tried, and convicted on conspiracy
charges.
• The unions were later sued for damages by the railroads. Both
big business and the U.S. government feared labor unions
were a menace to America’s capitalist economy.