RobertBuzzanco-TheStruggleForAmerica-NunnMcginty(2019)

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 7 Sharecropping, the prevailing labor system, would remain t ...

8 ChaPter^1 paid in full. The sale of every cropper’s part of the cotton [is] to be made by me when and where I choose to sell, ...

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 9 programs, and, most critically, the removal of all remaini ...

10 ChaPter^1 people. We must fight to win the prize. No people to whom liberty is given, can hold it as firmly and wear it as gr ...

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 11 numbers of Whites onto Indian lands and in the 1861 Treat ...

12 ChaPter^1 assigned reservation. After that, General Philip Sheridan put it bluntly: “the only good Indians I ever saw were de ...

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 13 the government and White settlers had taken over three-fo ...

14 ChaPter^1 way through Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, but freez- ing weather and starvation began to take th ...

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 15 Stealing Land and Culture But the government did not just ...

16 ChaPter^1 to stop, and the media wrote sensational stories about the “hostile” Sioux and their dangerous dance. But the Nativ ...

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 17 industry was emerging as the dominant economic activity–i ...

18 ChaPter^1 One northern observer warned the South what to expect when the war ended. “Our capitalists are going into your coun ...

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 19 the Northwest and West were consistently well over $100, ...

20 ChaPter^1 in 1808, anticipated the United States becoming a powerful industrial capital- ist country with an extensive transp ...

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 21 degree. But, as noted, the government [the public sector] ...

22 ChaPter^1 also creating “efficiency” in production and management. Politically, those with power sought “representation” by c ...

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 23 Railroad executives began these moves toward oligopoly, c ...

24 ChaPter^1 new rounds of speculation, mergers, oligopolies, and business failures [again, think of the banking meltdown of the ...

Reconstruction, Expansion, and the Triumph of Industrial Capitalism 25 once did almost all manufacturing work, now machines and ...

26 ChaPter^1 industries—such as the railroads, as we shall see—prior to 1860, it would continue to foster Capitalism even more i ...