Race, Gender, American Empire 18/1900s - Week 4

Question 1

convict leasing

Answer 1

states could ‘lease’ prisoners to perform unpaid labor. industrialists and the states profited

Question 2

the new south vision

Answer 2

Henry Grady, 1886, vision of economically prosperous South
goal: increase industry, diversify agriculture, attract northern investments (failed)

Question 3

1895 Int’l Exposition

Answer 3

introduced atlanta as capital of new south, like the world’s fair. booker t washington was speaker “atlanta compromise”

Question 4

the term jim crow originated from ________ shows

Answer 4

minstrel

Question 5

louisiana separate car act of 1890 caused _________ v _________

Answer 5

plessy v ferguson in 1896

Question 6

the talented tenth

Answer 6

coined by W.E.B. DuBois, meant to build an educated black core in the USA

Question 7

immigration restriction league (1894)

Answer 7

founded in boston by harvard graduates, pushed literacy tests for immigrants, and bans on immigrants who had disabilities

Question 8

page act (1875)

Answer 8

chinese women couldn’t immigrate to the USA

Question 9

chinese exclusion act (1882)

Answer 9

no chinese allowed in the USA. renewed in 1902 and made permenant. needed to register and carry a photo id.

Question 10

paper identities

Answer 10

since the children of US citizens were immediately USA citizens, that meant chinese could ‘fake’ kids and get other relatives over to the USA by loophole in law.

Question 11

attitudes towards _______ and ___________ shapes USA’s foreign policy in the 1890s.

Answer 11

blacks, immigrants

Question 12

american expansion was focused on _______, not territory

Answer 12

trade

Question 13

hawaiian annexation

Answer 13

1893: USA backed overthrow of Hawaiian queen
Groven Cleveland rejected annexation
1898: USA annexed Hawaii after spanish-american war, later had a shittyapology

Question 14

yellow journalism

Answer 14

sensationalized news with little research (ex; fox)

Question 15

spanish american war (1868)

Answer 15

cuban independence movement caused a revort in spain. the USS Maine was blown up, triggering USA intervention, wanted to help Cuba.

Outcomes: USA gets philipines, puerto rico, guam

Question 16

teller amendment

Answer 16

USA has no plans to annex Cuba

Question 17

platt amendment (1901)

Answer 17

US can intervene in Cuba whenever they want, can built USA naval bases as well.

Question 18

Philipines War (1899-1903)

Answer 18

McKinley, USA wanted to ‘help’ the ‘backwards’ filipinos

Question 19

white man’s burden

Answer 19

white man must help ‘backwards’ countries and civilizations to change their ways and be less ‘savage’, a spreading of knowledge

Question 20

rough riders

Answer 20

group put together by teddy roosevelt, meant to go to cuba and fight for freedom while showcasing american masculine strength. proves that strong american men still exist despite the departure from traditional family roles of ‘protector’

Question 21

at the core of these issues:

Answer 21

fear that immigrants will change the country and the culture. what do immigrants mean for america? fear of the unknown