Race, Gender, American Empire 18/1900s - Week 4 Flashcards
convict leasing
states could ‘lease’ prisoners to perform unpaid labor. industrialists and the states profited
the new south vision
Henry Grady, 1886, vision of economically prosperous South
goal: increase industry, diversify agriculture, attract northern investments (failed)
1895 Int’l Exposition
introduced atlanta as capital of new south, like the world’s fair. booker t washington was speaker “atlanta compromise”
the term jim crow originated from ________ shows
minstrel
louisiana separate car act of 1890 caused _________ v _________
plessy v ferguson in 1896
the talented tenth
coined by W.E.B. DuBois, meant to build an educated black core in the USA
immigration restriction league (1894)
founded in boston by harvard graduates, pushed literacy tests for immigrants, and bans on immigrants who had disabilities
page act (1875)
chinese women couldn’t immigrate to the USA
chinese exclusion act (1882)
no chinese allowed in the USA. renewed in 1902 and made permenant. needed to register and carry a photo id.
paper identities
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.
attitudes towards _______ and ___________ shapes USA’s foreign policy in the 1890s.
blacks, immigrants
american expansion was focused on _______, not territory
trade
hawaiian annexation
1893: USA backed overthrow of Hawaiian queen
Groven Cleveland rejected annexation
1898: USA annexed Hawaii after spanish-american war, later had a shittyapology
yellow journalism
sensationalized news with little research (ex; fox)
spanish american war (1868)
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
teller amendment
USA has no plans to annex Cuba
platt amendment (1901)
US can intervene in Cuba whenever they want, can built USA naval bases as well.
Philipines War (1899-1903)
McKinley, USA wanted to ‘help’ the ‘backwards’ filipinos
white man’s burden
white man must help ‘backwards’ countries and civilizations to change their ways and be less ‘savage’, a spreading of knowledge
rough riders
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’
at the core of these issues:
fear that immigrants will change the country and the culture. what do immigrants mean for america? fear of the unknown
