ECON 113 Chapter 2: Progressivism by Walter Nugent: The Crisis of the Nineties
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1880s: expansive & prosperous time for europe and the americas architecture: brooklyn bridge (1883) and first steel-frame skyscraper (1885) engineering: passenger & freight service on railroads across the country immigration: transatlantic steamships allowed immigration. Westward expansion: native americans are pushed into reservations. 1887: interstate commerce act intended to regulate monopolistic railroad prices. 1890: sherman anti-trust act passed settlement houses : privately staffed institutions w/ social workers that provided services and education to the urban poor e. g. 1889 hull house by jane addams in chicago. Knights of labor: the major labor organization of the time, whose motto was the union of the producing class . 1886 haymarket riot affair (peaceful protesters for an eight-hour workday, unknown person threw a bomb at the police) tarnished their reputation b/c of identification with labor agitation and anarchism. 1889: the national farmer"s alliance and industrial union (a. k. a. Southern alliances from being as effective as the midwestern ones.
