American context

Question 1

Industrialist

Answer 1

Andrew Carnegie

One of the richest men in history

Question 2

How much did Carnegie donate

Answer 2

350 million to charities

Question 3

Carnegie article

Answer 3

1889- ‘the gospel of wealth’ called on the rich to use wealth to improve society
‘No idol more debasing than the worship of money’

Question 4

‘Wounded knee’

Answer 4

1891

Hundreds of women and children killed

Question 5

Black elk quote (wounded knee)

Answer 5

‘ people’s dream died there’

‘You see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nations hoop is broken and scattered. There is no centre any longer and the sacred tree is dead’

Question 6

Spanish American war date

Answer 6

1889- triumphant victory

One sided- Spain little time to prepare

Question 7

Spanish war reasons

Answer 7

Cuban independence- depicted in America through yellow journalism

Question 8

The rosewood massacre date

Answer 8

1923

Question 9

Rosewood civil war

Answer 9

Jim Crow laws after the civil war created segregation.

Question 10

Rosewood causes

Answer 10

Fanny Taylor found screaming, bruised claiming black man assaulted her.

Question 11

Rosewood events

Answer 11

Husband gathered mob and 500 kkk who blamed Jesse hunter.
The mob were dragging men by cars, beating them, torturing
Houses and churches burnt
Forced man to dig own grave

Question 12

Rosewood after

Answer 12

25 people hiding

Newspapers said armed black groups were on rampage (false)

Question 13

Rosewood trial

Answer 13

All white witnesses, no prosecution

Question 14

Jim Crow laws

Answer 14

13th amendment freed 4 million slaves in 1865

These laws delighted how they would live

Question 15

Activist against Jim crow

Answer 15

Ida b wells
Refunded to leave white train car
1889- wrote about school segregation and sexual assault
Mob destroyed her newspaper and threatened her with death

Question 16

First black school

Answer 16

Charlotte Hawkins brown

1901- North Carolina first black school

Question 17

Promoted segregation

Answer 17

Isaiah montgomy

Ex slave created ‘mound bayou’ all black town.

Question 18

Race riots

Answer 18

Rise in lynching and race riots

23 in 1919

Question 19

Triangle shirt wash factory fire

Answer 19

1911 killed 145

Mostly young immigrant women working 12 hours

Question 20

Why fire?

Answer 20

Neglected safety
Doors locked
Elevator only held 12, many jumped down shaft to their death or out of windows

Question 21

Fire aftermath

Answer 21

Better laws on worker conditions
Only paid 15 dollars a week
Went on strike and were imprisoned
Weren’t convicted of manslaughter

Question 22

Social Darwinism

Answer 22

Justify racism

Question 23

Laissez faire

Answer 23

Herbert Spencer linked SD to capitalism and thought qualities were genetic
Saw the poor as inherently weak and unfit

Question 24

Eugenics

Answer 24

Adopted by hitler

Rid society of undesirables

Question 25

Galton

Answer 25

Argued welfare and mental institutions allow inferior to breed

Question 26

Forced law

Answer 26

32 states passed laws forcing sterilisation of over 64000 immigrants people of colour unmarried mothers and mentally ill