amalgamation

(noun)

The process of merging or consolidating.

Related Terms

Examples of amalgamation in the following topics:

  • The "Era of Good Feelings"

    • His great disadvantage, however, was that amalgamation deprived him of appealing to Republican solidarity that would have cleared the way for passage of his programs in Congress.

  • The Great Steel Strike

    • The Steel Strike of 1919 was an attempt by the weakened Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers (the AA) to organize the United States steel industry in the wake of World War I.

  • Workers Organize

    • In the riots of 1892 at Carnegie's steel works in Homestead, Pennsylvania , a group of 300 Pinkerton detectives , whom the company had hired to break a bitter strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, were fired upon by strikers and 10 were killed.

  • Madison's American Indian Policy

    • The Seminole Wars, also known as the "Florida Wars," were three conflicts in Florida between the Seminole—the collective name given to the amalgamation of various groups of Native Americans and African Americans who settled in Florida in the early eighteenth century—and the U.S.

  • Civil Rights and Voting Rights

    • Russell stated: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."

  • The Homestead Lockout

    • The strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers (AA) at the Homestead steel mill in 1892 was different from previous large-scale strikes in American history, such as the Great railroad strike of 1877 or the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886.

  • The Rise of Unions

    • Carnegie's steel works in Homestead, Pennsylvania hired a group of three hundred Pinkerton detectives to break a bitter strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.

  • The Muckrakers

    • Hendrick (1870–1949) — "The Story of Life Insurance" May - November 1906 McClure's Frances Kellor (1873–1952) — studied chronic unemployment in her book Out of Work (1904) Thomas William Lawson (1857–1924) Frenzied Finance (1906) on Amalgamated Copper stock scandal Gustavus Myers (1872–1942) - documented corruption in his first book "The History of Tammany Hall" (1901) unpublished, Revised edition, Boni and Liveright, 1917.