Social Develoments (unfinished) Flashcards
When was the NAWSA set up and who was their first leader?
1800, Susan B Anthony
When was the Anti-Saloon league founded and what did it do?
1893, aimed to achieve prohibition
How many immigrants arrived in the US between 1900 and 1914?
15 million
By 1900 how many Italians and Irish people were in New York?
More Italians than Naples and twice as many Irish as Dublin
By 1914, how many Jews were in New York and how many people were in New York?
1.4 million Jewish people out of 4.7 million
When was the Immigration Restriction League set up?
1894
Where was the first railroad company to introduce the first segregated railway carriages?
Florida in 1887
By 1900, what % of African Americans lived in the south?
90%
What did most African Americans in the south rely on to survive?
Farming, sharecropping or domestic service
In 1890, what did Mississippi introduce in order to register to vote?
A literacy test
Between 1889 and 1929 how many people were lynched and how many people were sentenced?
3,724 were lynched and 4 people were sentenced
When was there a revival of the KKK and what inspired this?
1915 after the film the “Birth of a Nation”
Where were there race riots in July 1917?
East St Louis, Illinois
In September 1917, what happened which provoked lynchings?
In Houston, Texas black soldiers were provoked and killed 17 white people
In summer 1919, where were there race riots?
Chicago
1919 race riots in Chicago what were the consequences?
Lasted 13 days and left 38 people dead, 537 injured and 1,000 black families without homes
Who set up the Tuskegee institute and why?
Booker T Washington to provide training for black people
Who helped found the Niagra movement and when?
1905, WEB Du Bois to fight against racial segregation and disenfranchisement
Who helped set up the NAACP and when?
WEB Du Bois 1909
In 1910-1920 what happened to the black population of major northern cities?
Grew by large percentages, including New York 66% and Detroit 611%
What was Harlem before and by the 1920s how many African Americans lived there? What did this lead to?
Formerly all white neighbourhood now housed some 200,000 African Americans - led to the Harlem Renaissance an artistic celebration of black identity and self expression
What happened to the population of New York between 1870 and 1890?
Doubled
What happened to the population of New York between 1890 and 1910?
Doubled again
By 1900 how many American cities were there with a population of 100,000 or more?
38
