Post Reconstruction to Theodore Roosevelt

Unit 5 RUSH

I. Railroads had a huge impact on the growth of big business.

a. Steel expands-b. Government subsidy of

railroads-c. Transcontinental railroad- d. Demand for labor-

II. Rise of Trusts and Monopolies.• A. Trusts- • B. Monopolies-• C. John D. Rockefeller- • The Standard Oil Company Trust

• D. Andrew Carnegie- • “The Gospel of Wealth”.

III. Thomas Alva Edison invented several important things in his life.

• 1. • 2. • 3. • Impact-

IV. New Wave Immigration• A. Ellis Island-• Angel Island-

• B. Europeans now came from…• C. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882-

V Rise of the Labor Movement• D. Samuel Gompers- • The American Federation of Labor-

VI. Western growth impacts Native Americans• A. The growth in the west was caused by…• B. Native Americans reservations• C. Sitting Bull-• D. Battle of Little Bighorn-• E. Wounded Knee-

(pictures on the next slide)

Top left: Sitting BullMiddle Top: Sitting Bull cleaning his bloody knifeTop Right: Artists depiction of Sitting Bull killing CusterBottom left: Portrait of the battleBottom right: Sitting Bull’s “scouts”: White Man Runs Him, Goes Ahead and Hairy Moccasin

VII. Industrial and labor unrest• A. Big business vs. labor unions• B. Unions fight for…• C. 1894 Pullman strike

VIII. The Progressive Era• The progressive movement had 4

main goals:1. 2. 3. 4.

IX. The Muckrakers• A. Muckrakers- • B. Upton Sinclair • “The Jungle”

• C. Ida Tarbell

X. Women in Reform Movements• A. Jane Addams • Hull House

• B. Women’s rights in the west

XI. Social Changes for African Americans• A. Jim Crow Laws• B. Plessy v. Ferguson • “separate but equal”

• C. NAACP

XII. Progressive Reforms• A. The direct election of Senators- • B. Reform labor laws-• C. Improving living conditions in cities-

XIII. Theodore Roosevelt was a Progressive. • A. Theodore Roosevelt-• Trusts-

• B. Bull Moose Party-