- Last 7 days
-
www.americanyawp.com www.americanyawp.com
-
aissez faire, or “hands off,” economic policy
Federal government left manufacturers and business owners alone to run their business as they pleased. This led to abuse of power and the 2nd industrial revolution
-
-
www.americanyawp.com www.americanyawp.com
-
American fundamentalists spanned Protestant denominations and borrowed from diverse philosophies and theologies, most notably the holiness movement, the larger revivalism of the nineteenth century, and new dispensationalist theology (in which history proceeded, and would end, through “dispensations” by God). They did, however, all agree that modernism was the enemy and the Bible was the inerrant word of God.
American fundamentalists were combating the modern merging of saecular cultures and Christian morals. They clung to the chief truths of Christian tradition and denounced modernism
-
nativism
Americans protecting native born population and discouraging immigration out of fear and prejudice
-
National Origins Act
only 2 percent of the population of a certain country already in America in 1890 were allowed to immigrate in 1921
-
Fear of foreign radicals led to the executions of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian anarchists, in 1927.
Although this seems to be a time of progress, people were still racist and afraid of radicalism. Sacco and Vanzetti were executed with very little evidence because they were Italian radicals
-
he Universal Negro Improvement Association
established by Marcus Garvey to inspire racial pride and independence
-
promote racial pride, encourage Black economic independence, and root out racial oppression in Africa and the Diaspora.
Garvey believed in the dignity of the working man, like Washington. He encouraged black americans to have pride in their culture as it was.
-
Great Migration
Immigration in the early 1900s brought many Black Americans to the North
-
department store
Department stores were full of everything from neccessities to luxuries, promoting consumerism by making every commodity more accessible
-
- Sep 2024
-
www.americanyawp.com www.americanyawp.com
-
the election of 1912
Taft of the republic party- trustbuster, sought to eliminate monopolies Roosevelt of Progressive Bull Moose- sought to regualte the vast coroporations and impose federal power upon them Wilson of Democrative party- sought to aid small businesses in order to increase competition
-
NAACP.
National association fo the advancement of colored people
-
The Crisis,
Black publiction to encourage black Americans to stand up against injustice
-
Upton Sinclair
wrote The Jungle exposing the meatpacking industry
-
conservation
conservationists wanted to take nature and put it to use to best serve mankind
-
preservation
preservationists wanted to keep nature for its beauty as it is
-
National Woman’s Party
Aggressive womens' rights activists led by Alice Paul
-
National American Woman Suffrage Association
middle and upperclass women
-
Hull House
social philanthropy house made by Jane Adams
-
-
www.americanyawp.com www.americanyawp.com
-
Menlo Park
location of edison's research lab
-
Tammany Hall
democratic political machine which tried to get votes by doing 'selfless' acts like helping poor immigrants
-
-
www.americanyawp.com www.americanyawp.com
-
In 1892, the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers struck at one of Carnegie’s steel mills in Homestead, Pennsylvania. After repeated wage cuts, workers shut the plant down and occupied the mill.
homestead strike
-
the Omaha Platform
the Omaha Platform was the populist platform which championed expansion of federal powers and balancing captialism
-
Eugene Debs
led a continued pullman strike with the american railway union
-
In 1894, workers in George Pullman’s Pullman car factories struck when he cut wages by a quarter
pullman strike
-
The Knights of Labor
radical
-
The American Federation of Labor (AFL)
producerist
-
Andrew Carnegie
steel magnate
-
J. D. Rockefeller
oilman
-
Cornelius Vanderbilt, oilmen such as J. D. Rockefeller, steel magnates such as Andrew Carnegie, and bankers such as J. P. Morgan
railroad operator
-
the Gilded Age
the Great Gatsby
-
the corporation, using new state incorporation laws passed during the Market Revolution of the early nineteenth century, became a legal mechanism for nearly any enterprise to marshal vast amounts of capital while limiting the liability of shareholders
corporations became more private that federal, and investors were legally protected so more people invested
-
To match the demands of the machine age, Taylor said, firms needed a scientific organization of production. He urged all manufacturers to increase efficiency by subdividing tasks.
Fredrick Taylor compartmentalized production into small subjobs in order to promote efficiency.
-
Taylorism increased the scale and scope of manufacturing and allowed for the flowering of mass production
Everything was being made faster and at higher quantities- mass prouction
-
- Aug 2024
-
www.americanyawp.com www.americanyawp.com
-
The World’s Columbian Exposition
An extravagent fair to celebrate and exhibit the glory of the Gilded Age
-
Chief Joseph
Leader of the Nez Perce who tried to escape the military with his people, but was forced to succumb. He eventually used his fame to get his people closer to their homeland.
-
a guerrilla war for eleven months in which at least two hundred U.S. troops were killed before they were finally forced to surrender. Despite appeals from settlers acquainted with the Modoc, the federal government hanged Kintpuash and three others leaders in a highly choreographed and publicized public execution.17
The Modoc waged war with the military, refusing to leave their land and relocate to reservations. They were forced to surrender and the leaders, including Kintpuash, were hung in a theatrical show of power
-
The Sand Creek Massacre was a national scandal, alternately condemned and applauded.
The Cheyenne sought peace and they were mercilessly massacred by the military.
-
Treaty of Bosque Redondo
After the grueling Long Walk to Bosque Redondo, the conditions were unlivable. This treaty allowed the Navajo to return to their homes
-
Board of Indian Commissioners
Protestant group with the mission to "manage" the Indian reservations and assimilate the Natives
-
Fighting broke out at New Ulm, Fort Ridgely, and Birch Coulee, but the Americans broke Indigenous resistance at the Battle of Wood Lake on September 23, ending the so-called Dakota War.10
White migrants encroached on the Dakota territory and the Dakota retaliated with war.
-
Homestead Act
Men could claim land as their own. After five years of staking their claim, they could apply for the deed
-
American bison slaughter
Bison became the primary game for leather in the 1870s
-
-
www.americanyawp.com www.americanyawp.com
-
the Enforcement Acts
trying to outlaw the kkk
-
Compromise of 1877
Rutherford was elected. The democrats nearly denied him as president. They accepted him under the condition that the soldiers who were mitigating racist violence in the south were removed.
-
convict-lease system
the convict-lease system meant that wealthy white individuals couls lease prisoners to work for them. The prisoners were often abused and unjustly convicted.
-
Black towns across the South. Perhaps the most well-known of these towns was Mound Bayou, Mississippi
Black town
-
the Lost Cause narrative
negated the crueltly of slavery and racism, exagerating the significance of states rights and national union in the civil war.
-
Jim Crow
Jim Crow acts enforced segregation. This led to purely black communities and Churches. Segregation was evil and demeaning. However, the Black Churches were somewhat a refuge amidst racism
-
When just 10 percent of a state’s voting population had taken such an oath, loyal Unionists could then establish governments.3 These so-called Lincoln governments sprang up in pockets where Union support existed like Louisiana, Tennessee, and Arkansas. Unsurprisingly, these were also the places that were exempted from the liberating effects of the Emancipation Proclamation.
The Emancipation Proclamation only applied to "areas of rebellion". The ten percent of the confederate population who swore allegience to the Union still supported slavery. Nonetheless, Lincoln issued the oath as a means to reunite the US.
-
The Fourteenth Amendment
Abolished black codes- securing universal protection and gauranteeing citizenship to all residents, as well as demanding due process.
-
His Reconstruction plan required provisional southern governments to void their ordinances of secession, repudiate their Confederate debts, and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment. On all other matters, the conventions could do what they wanted with no federal interference.
Presidential Reconstruction
-
The amendment legally abolished slavery “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”
The thirteenth amendment officially freed the slaves and legally eradicated slavery. It finally accomplished the goal of the Emancipation Proclamation.
-