Interpretations - Positives and Negative Flashcards
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Gilded Age - African American Positives (3)
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- 1/20 read 65, 1/2 95
- Rise in AA organisations
- 47,000 professional 1900, but 8 mil pop
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Gilded Age, African American Negatives (5)
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- Plessy 1896 “social, as distinguished from political” equality = segregation
- 1881 Tennessee segregation of rails
- Chicago 5,000 AAs
- Jim Crow, Grandfather clauses
- George H White retired 1901
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Gilded Age, Trade Union Positives (4)
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- 7% Annual growth
- 60% wage rise for skilled
- KOL 20,000 81 to 700,000 86
- 86 AFL
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Gilded Age, Trade Union Negatives (4)
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- Haymarket 1886 encouraged by demand for workers
- Hostility from employers and lack of security in 90s slump
- Injunctions against Pullman
- 20,000 railroad killed 89
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Gilded Age, Natives Positives (4)
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- Dawes 87 allowed some to own land
- Reservations allowed farming, healthcare, culture
- 2x Boarding schools allowed jobs
- Won respect from Bighorn 76 due to poor treatment
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Gilded Age, Natives Negatives (3)
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- Assimilation lost self-determination
- Reservations failed as lost historic freedom
- Sioux massacre at wounded Knee shows poor attitudes (300 dead)
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Gilded Age, Women Positives (4)
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- 60k in temperance demos, many supported suffrage. WCTU
- 26% Philly workers female 1880s
- 1880s clerical white collar work, although no equal pay
- 1890 35 training schools for nurses
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Gilded Age, Women Negatives (4)
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- Division in female movements limited them
- Temperance meant women’s issues weren’t focused on
- Immigration lowered status of domestic work
- Wages significantly unequal
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New Deal, AAs Positive (4)
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- Robert Weaver Advisor on Economic Status of Negro 1934, secured $45 million for AA schools etc
- 250,000 literacy help by federal aid
- Farm Security Admin helped southern AAs hit by drop in food price
- Eleanor spoke against segregation and NAACP grew in 30s
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New Deal, AAs Negative (6)
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- Little done for 200,000 evicted sharecroppers
- Farmers paid for not producing crops, AA tenants not paid
- Improvements to working conditions excluded agriculture and domestic service
- NRA regulations evaded
- Wagner’s benefits for unions didn’t reach AA casual workers
- CCC some relief to unemployed AAs, but Ten. Valley Dam segregated
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New Deal, Trade Unions Positive (6)
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- NIRA 33 and NRA = codes for wages, hours
- Wagner 35 = collective bargaining
- Fair Labour Standards 38 = weekly wage
- General Motors recognised United Automobile Workers’ U in 36
- Membership 3.7mil 33 to 9mil 38
- CIO 35 = whole industry unions
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New Deal, Trade Unions Negative (5)
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- Ford no recognise NIRA, Wagner
- NIRA unconst. 35
- Unskilled not benefitted greatly
- Differentials uphelp by NIRA and F.L.S.A
- Extension to all workers not met by WWII, low security
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New Deal, Natives Positive (4)
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- Wheeler 34 = Self determination
- Wheeler - own religion and identity
- Stopped sale and recovered unallocated land (allotment abandoned)
- Tribal councils ended attempts to break tribal loyalty
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New Deal, Natives Negatives (4)
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- Gains undermined by termination 53 and financial demands of WWII
- 75 of 245 tribes rejected Wheeler
- Insufficient funds to buy back land
- Wheeler voted on by ballot, democracy alien to Natives
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New Deal, Women Positives (5)
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- Reforming organisations had a sympathetic administration as E. R spoke for women’s groups
- Frances Perkins became Secretary for Labor
- Florence Allen Appeal Courts judge
- Social Security Act 35 helped married women with kids
- Not specifically targeted at women but arose from female social worker proposals
