Cosima Roessler
5th Period
Dawes Act
It took a lot of land from the Indian Americans, that was unfair.
Transcontinental RR
It was good for America because it was a better possibility to treval or bring for example raw materials.
Sherman Antitrust Act
It made it impossible to have contact with "The restraint of trade or commerce".
AFL/Samuel Gompers
The American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organization, two groups that merged in 1955 to become the largest union in the United States.
Americanization
It was good for the Immigrants to lern more to fitin the american life.
Nativism
This was not good for the Immigrants. The could not feel home in America.
Political Machines/Boss Tweed
The leader in a political machine was called a 'City Boss'.
They were pretty bad, because they just took money and kept it for themselfes without helping other people.
Chinese Exclusion Act
America shoul take more immigrants. The country is really big so the don't need to be picky.
Muckrakers
Famous Muckraker were:
Jacob Riis (1849-1914), the city editor of the New York Trivute, author and photographer publishes "How the other half lives" in 1890 graphically describing the squalor of the New York slums.
"A MOdern Chronicle" was a best-selling novel by American wirter Winston Shurchill in 1910 expploring "the problem of modern women" and the effects iv divorce, in a world driven by industrialization and business competition.
David Graham Philips exposed political issues in his book "The plum tree" and showed the corruption power of money in "the second generation" and wrote "The treanson of the state" articles in Cosmopolitan.
They tried to figuer everything out especially the bad news from the government and published them. That was kind of good so the nation can read what was gping on without lies.