Question 1

What does the south economically develop?

Accepted Answer

railroads

Question 2

What is the Lost Cause myth?

Accepted Answer

claims the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery.

Question 3

What are some common custumes for Southern African-Americans?

Accepted Answer

-Step aside on sidewalk, when Whites pass by
-Call Whites, Mr or Miss; Whites call them by their first names
-Do not shake hands with them
-Black men remove hats where Whites can gregate
-Races don’t speak, walk together in public
-White people avoid downtown on Saturday afternoons; Black people shop

Question 4

What was lynching African Americans?

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Hanging, burning alive, shooting

Question 5

What was the pretext for lynching?

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-accuse of rape, -challenging the “settle”, -political activists

Question 6

How do farmers feel?

Accepted Answer

Feel powerless against big businessesl. Railroads, banks make money but they don’t.

Question 7

What don't the have control over?

Accepted Answer

No control over world markets that affect their income

Question 8

Why did the farmers leave behind modernization?

Accepted Answer

They see that rest of country sees them “hayseeds”

Question 9

Why do farmers want "easy" money?

Accepted Answer

Easier to pay off debts. (print money, more silver coins)

Question 10

Why do workers feel powerless against corporations?

Accepted Answer

Powerless against giant corporations

Question 11

What did a worker's life look like?

Accepted Answer

Bad pay, long hours, dangerous working conditions

Question 12

What did the federal and state governments support?

Accepted Answer

Federal and state governments support corporations against labor. Wealthy elites have more power in government than poor workers

Question 13

What was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877?

Accepted Answer

The Chicago railroad strike of 1877 was a series of work stoppages and civil unrest in Chicago, Illinois, which occurred as part of the larger national strikes and rioting of the Great Railroad Strike of 1877.

Question 14

What did President Hays do?

Accepted Answer

The strike wave impacted just about every major railroad in the United States, and elected officials and railroad companies responded by deploying local and state troops and privately hired militias. In addition, President Rutherford B. Hayes deployed federal troops to attack workers.

Question 15

What did the workers do in retalition to this?

Accepted Answer

Workers respond by organizing labor union

Question 16

What was the Knights of Labor?

Accepted Answer

Knights of Labor were members were skilled and unskilled workers, rallied for shorter work days, equal pay for men and women, and to end child labor. Has success with peaceful strikes; shows unions can work

Question 17

What was the American Federation of Labor?

Accepted Answer

American Federation of Labor, a labor union formed in 1886 by Samuel Gompers in order to voice the working class. Skilled workers in specific trades- plumbers, cigar makers, iron workers

Question 18

What was the United Mine Workers?

Accepted Answer

The miners asked for 20-percent wage increases, and most were given a 10-percent increase. The miners had asked for an 8-hour day and were awarded a 9-hour day instead of the standard 10 hours then prevailing. 52 The operators refused to recognize the United Mine Workers union.

Question 19

What was the Industrial Works of the World: The Wobblies

Accepted Answer

These people were more radical- don’t settle for small changes; restrictive society.  It was part of an international industrial unionism movement that aimed to organize all workers of the same industry into the same union.

Question 20

What was the Haymarket Strike: Chicago 1886?

Accepted Answer

a violent confrontation between police and labour protesters in Chicago on May 4, 1886, that became a symbol of the international struggle for workers' rights

Question 21

What was the Homestead Strike, Carnegie Steel 1892?

Accepted Answer

-Company hires “scabs”- substitute workers to break strikes
-Hire Pinkerton Security force to protest scabs, plant
-Governor send 8,000 militia; breaks up union

Question 22

What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: March 25, 1911?

Accepted Answer

Trapped inside because the owners had locked the fire escape exit doors, workers jumped to their deaths. In a half an hour, the fire was over, and 146 of the 500 workers—mostly young women—were dead

Question 23

Who runs as president in 1896?

Accepted Answer

William Jennings Bryan run as Democrat 1896

Question 24

What does Jennings compaign for?

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-Campaigns against gold standard
-Wants “free silver” - make more silver coins

Question 25

How does the US population grow?

Accepted Answer

1870: 40 million
1900: 75 million
⅔ natural births
⅓ immigration

Question 26

Why is population growth centered in cities?

Accepted Answer

Cities attracts people who need jobs.

Question 27

What three cities have the mosst growth?

Accepted Answer

Chicago, New York, Philadelphia

Question 28

How does corruption grow?

Accepted Answer

“Political corruption” exchanges favors for exchanges
Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall in New York City

Question 29

Who challenges current political, social, and economic conditions?

Accepted Answer

Thinkers and writers

Question 30

What were thinkers and writers points?

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-Slums are man-made and can be fixed by man
-Recognizes role of environment in behavior
-See government role in reforming society, economy

Question 31

Who challenged Social Darwinism?

Accepted Answer

John Dewey

Question 32

What is Social Darwinism?

Accepted Answer

the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better.

Question 33

What does Social Dawrinists mean by survuval. of the fittest ot humans?

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-Implies rigid class system, poverty good for human species
-Government intervention to help poor is bad for society

Question 34

What are the Muckrakers?

Accepted Answer

Investigate, journalists expose corruption in government business

Question 35

What was the Novel Uption Sinclair: The Jungle 1906 about?

Accepted Answer

Exposes conditions in Chicago Slaughterhouses

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