social divisions in the gilded age

Question 1

give 5 groups facing social divisions in the gilded age

Answer 1

immigrants
native americans 
african americans 
women
industrial groups

Question 2

give 3 ways immigrants faced social divisions in the gilded age

Answer 2

• 10mil + immigrants between 1860-90 ; created hostility and seen as threat to jobs and american values
• Chinese Exclusion Act 1882 Yellow Peril
• fear after 1873 stock market crash over cheap chinese labour undermining white americans

Question 3

describe how native americans faced social divisions in the gilded age

Answer 3

expansion westward put NA on reservations and by 1890 way of life completely gone; no repair attempted until Indian New Deal 1934

Question 4

give 3 ways AA faced social divisions in the gilded age

Answer 4

• jim crow/ voting laws undermined their rights to vote
• violence was common eg lynchings
• more than half of southern AA illiterate in 1890

Question 5

give 2 ways AA were positively impacted in GA

Answer 5

• many exercises right to marry

- 1866-1888 3 universities for AA built

Question 6

give 3 ways women were impacted in GA

Answer 6

• female suffrage still fought for
• 1890 NAWSA established
• temperance movement

Question 7

give 2 ways industrial groups were impacted in GA

Answer 7

• farmers/ workers set up Granger Movement 1867 and Knights of Labour to defend interests
• by 1890 seem as a political force against big business