Gilded Age Timeline

limited States' rights to control interstate commerce: it led to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. (ICC)

limited governments power to control businesses (overruled Sherman Antitrust Act)

"separate but equal"

miners complain of horrible conditions and ask for regulation to help improve them and court agrees

allowed segregation in schools

bakery workers want better conditions and more regulation but court ignores

women ask for protection, of course they’re just supposed to be housewives…

first labor union; could not organize itself so it fell apart (even though it was big); rejected Socialism and followed Republicanism

the building of the railroad lead to massive deforestation in the west, but gave the opportunity for shipment of mass produced items and bananas

best way to keep cows from breaching the fence--also showed how patents existed and inventions became wide spread

baseball! people finally have time to get out of the house since no one wants to be in that overcrowded smelly room

regulated railroads to ensure fair rates

union: separated by racism and sexism

Populists: wanted more government regulation to help aid the little people

represent populist ideology

• Advocated factory efficiency on a scientific level: made it hard for workers to be up to snuff
• No more small business: factories got chaching and there’s a rising financial separation

The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished.[5] They are known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect their managers[6] and other forms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented.

Nez Perce were asked to give up their ancestral land and when they didn't we kicked them out (went against the Treaty of Walla Walla in 1855)

RR cut wages

Chicago: began as a peaceful strike for workers rights until someone threw a bomb at the popo

last battle of American Indian Wars--we chased the Lakota Sioux off their land and those who were too slow were killed (women and children included)

btwn AA union and Carnegie Steel: setback for union causes

American Railway Union (Eugene Debs) mad about reduced wages in Detroit, court told them to stop and they didnt, President Cleveland told army to stop them and they did. Debs arrested and ARU dissolved

tried to get the government to employ the unemployed to build roads