gilded age 2 Flashcards
(35 cards)
Who created the AFL for white craft workers in 1885?
Samuel Gompers
What was the main method of transport for immigrants moving west during the gilded age?
Steam ships
Where did C B Shmidt go to personally advertise for new immigrants?
Russia
In 1885 immigrants from which country came because the emperor revoked a ban on emigration and they wanted to work on sugar plantations in Hawaii?
Japan
Which Jewish banker was refused a room in the Grand Union Hotel because of his ethnicity in 1877?
Joseph Seligman
What is the name given to the movement which championed people who were born in America against the immigrants who weren’t?
Nativism
Which bug killed off the cotton crop and further impoverished African Americans in 1892?
The Boll Weavil
By 1910 what percentage of African Americans had land?
25%
By how much did the African American population increase during the Gilded Age?
It doubled
Where did the first ghetto develop in New York City
Harlem
How many states introduced formal segregation between 1887 and 1891
8
Which amendment to the constitution was almost entirely ignored by the southern states by 1910
15th
What excuse was given by groups like the KKK for lynching African American men?
They accused them of raping or attacking white women
Which African American reporter was chased out of town because she dared to challenge the legitimacy of lynching?
Ida Wells
Which American senator tried and failed to get more educational funding for African Americans in 1882?
Henry Blair
What was the term given to the movement to assimilate Native Americans into the “American” way of life?
Americanisation
Which act was introduced in 1887 to parcel up land for individual Native Americans or their families?
The Dawes Act or Dawes General Allotment Act
Why did many Native Americans just give up the land given to them?
The idea of owning land was alien to them
Which Paiiute Indian had a vision that lead to the ghost dance?
Wovoka
At which creek were 200 Lakota Indians massacred in 1890?
Wounded Knee
How many new railway systems were introduced to the American West in the Gilded age?
4
How did the railroad companies fund their projects whilst they were building?
They sold government granted land on either side of the track
What type of farming introduced during the Gilded Age helped farmers survive periods of little rain?
Dry farming
However what economic pattern did mechanisation lead the Agricultural industry into?
Boom and bust
