1865-1890 Social Flashcards
From 1860s to 1890 how many immigrants entered the USA?
10 million
why did people come to the USA?
- free/cheap land
- job opportunities
- land of the free- freedom from religious persecution
- escaping poverty
1882: immigration from abroad, which country did the largest amount originate from?
Germany (251,000/788,922) settled in places like Cincinnati
where did Irish immigrants tend to settle?
urban areas such as NYC, Boston and Chicago
immigration helped encourage the notion of nativism- what was that?
people born in the US began to try to preserve American values from foreign influence
pressure from anti- Chinese campaigners (those who warned of ‘Yellow Peril’), led to what being passed in 1882?
The Chinese Exclusion Act- stopped Chinese immigration and prevented US citizenship
why has so many Chinese immigrants headed for the US?
- Gold Rush, e.g. California 1849
- to build railroads
- industrial workers e.g. textiles, farmers
list 2 protest groups 1865- 1890?
- Granger Movement
- Knights of Labor
- Suffrage movement
- Temperance movement
- greenbacks
huge population increases in the North led to conflict - name one in the 1870s?
- Railroad strike 1877
- Orange riots 1870-71
what was a scalawag?
southerners who collaborated with the north
the ‘wild west’ image was being hyped as early as 1883 by William Cody- what was his stage show called?
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
what was formed in 1867 as a co-operative to help farmers with loans and advice in the South and West?
The Granger Movement
Freedmen mainly worked as?
Sharecroppers
name two positive things for AAs after Emancipation (except for changes in the constitution)?
- could change surnames
- could marry who they wanted
- 1866-68 3 universities opened Booker T Washington
who was Susan B Anthony?
- radical women’s suffrage leader
- campaigned for Temperance also
