unit 2 content quiz Flashcards
In what ways was the nation economically divided during the Gilded Age and how was the wealth gap justified?
rich/poor divide
- rich ppl lived in like gigantic spacious mansions while the proletariat was balling in tenement houses that were overcrowded and unsafe
- monopolies have SO MUCH power and there’s generally a power imbalance
how it was justified
- using social Darwinism (survival of the fittest, the fittest being rich white men and everyone else was left in the dust bc rich white men were seen as inherently better)
- basically if you were born poor and can’t get out of it you were meant to die off (pull yourself up by your bootstraps)
What was your typical Progressive like?
young, educated, middle-class American from a city
List some interconnected movements
- female suffrage
- temperance
- political reform
- anti-monopoly+antitrust laws
- labor and union protection laws
- fire safety/building regulation standards
- civil rights for Black Americans
- public education reform
- child labor laws
- food and product safety regulatio
Give at least 5 examples of how one would determine the success of a movement.
- Is it taught in classrooms today?
- Did the movement influence society? Did it bring change?
- Was there observable growth?
- Did it cause controversy?
- Is it no longer controversial?
- Did the movement gain traction?
- Was it covered in the press and social media?
- Was it included in political campaigns/debates?
- Did the main message of the movement stick?
- Are the leaders of the movement acknowledged/celebrated for what they did?
- Were the majority of issues solved or goals met?
- Are people still satisfied/happy with the outcomes?
- Does it have a positive legacy?
- Was/is it applicable to other places?
- Were laws passed that were put into practice?
- Did it result in an Amendment, Supreme Court case, or landmark legislation?
- Is opposition villianized today?
- How inclusive was the movement?
How were temperance and suffrage connected?
Drinking was blamed for many societal problems, such as domestic abuse, suicide, murders, and insanity. The money spent on drinks could’ve been spent on food to feed families. The men are already dying at war. Why do they need to be dying from alcohol?
just remember that asl got kkk and naacp to be behind the same thing and got politicians scared to defy it
How were the Muckrakers successful?
- their articles got child labor laws, federal and state health codes, monopoly breakups,
Describe Booker T. Washington.
born in the South as an enslaved person
one of the founders of the Tuskegee Institute
believed that vocational training was the best way for Black Americans to move forward in society
supported literacy tests and restrictions on voting rights
Describe W. E. B. Du Bois.
born in the North free
founded the Niagara Movement
advocated for full racial equality by actively working against discrimination
influenced a lot of famous Civil Rights Movement leaders
criticized Washington for being an accomodationist
Give a history of the Triangle Fire.
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1911
- in fall of 1909 workers went on strike
- Clara Lemlick tried to advocate for strike and got beaten up but comes back uninvited and is like STRIKE!!! and the girls eat her up
- then police take women away but we see some shops start to become union only
- by December press was being sympathetic to women
- Ann Morgan takes up the cause but leaves bc it’s too socialist
THEN
3.9.1911, Saturday afternoon
- women jumped out of windows and into elevator shafts to escape the fire
- 145 dead +1 died afterword
- public then starts to realize that this system can’t be private it has t be public
- Frances Perkins leads an extensive report that takes like 4 yrs
Immigration!!!
1900-1915: HUGE influx of immigration
3/4 of NYC population by 1910 was either first gen or immigrant
Define nativism.
anti-immigrant sentiment and xenophobia that upheld the notion that “natural-born”” citizens were superior and less dangerous than immigrants
was anti-Catholic bc like OG Americans in 1600s were like escaping from Catholicism and that bled into their rhetoric
Define ““city upon a hill.”
- superiority, idolized, separated, closer to God, role model
What does “New Colossus” represent?
a standard, a goal to meet
it’s SUPER idealistic and erases all challenges that immigrants face(d)
