As young women pushed back against social mores through premarital sexual exploration and expression, social welfare experts and moral reformers labeled such girls feeble-minded, believing even that such unfeminine behavior could be symptomatic of clinical insanity rather than free-willed expression.
How did shifting gender norms create tension between younger women and older generations during this period?
With white supremacy secured, prominent white southerners looked outward for support. New South boosters hoped to confront post-Reconstruction uncertainties by rebuilding the South’s economy and convincing the nation that the South could be more than an economically backward, race-obsessed backwater. And as they did, they began to retell the history of the recent past. A kind of civic religion known as the “Lost Cause” glorified the Confederacy and romanticized the Old South.
How did the “Lost Cause” help white southerners justify white supremacy and reshape the South’s image to the rest of the nation?
For April Fool’s Day in 1878, the New York Daily Graphic published a fictitious interview with the celebrated inventor Thomas A. Edison. The piece described the “biggest invention of the age”—a new Edison machine that could create forty different kinds of food and drink out of only air, water, and dirt. “Meat will no longer be killed and vegetables no longer grown, except by savages,” Edison promised. The machine would end “famine and pauperism.”
Why do you think people in 1878 were willing to believe that technology could completely end hunger and poverty?
a truly startling performance that signaled a bright future for the Populists. And when the Panic of 1893 sparked the worst economic depression the nation had ever yet seen, t
The economic state of the world affected the emotions of Americans. Economic depression.
The rise of industrial giants reshaped the American countryside and the Americans who called it home. Railroad spur lines, telegraph lines, and credit crept into farming communities and linked rural Americans,
Who funded this? was it the government or was it the tax payers?
police forces killed several workers while breaking up protesters
The amount of violence endured just for the right to protest.
f big business relied on its numerical strength to exert its economic will, why shouldn’t farmers unite to counter that power?
what would happen to the farmers who stood up against this or united to fight the injustices? Was there any organizations?