Week 4 (The Gilded Age) Flashcards
What is the Chinese exclusion act?
Says Chinese can’t enter the country
Vetoes the 14th amendment and dose not let native born Chinese become citizens
Excluded them from union labor work
What are Sojourners?
Ppl who come to America to make money to go back to their country
What was the great rail road strike?
The first labor strike
Train workers went on strike
It paralyzed the transportation of America
What is the grange?
When farmers got together and tried to counter corporate middle men from taking there money
They set up banks company’s and grain lifting elavators
What is populism?
A political idea
What dose the peoples party consist of and do?
The peoples party consists of populist
They are popular and are a political party/ are used by politicians
What are the knights of labor?
They believed that ordinary people need to control their own jobs
Open membership… (Every one but the Chinese)
Became a sprawling and decentralized organization… (Down fall)
What were wild cat strikes?
Unorganized strikes that the union did not know about
What is anarchism?
Revolution state of society in which everyone dose what they want to do
Who is Samuel Gompers?
Leader of the American federation of laborers
Came up with the pure and simple unionism
Pure- involved no politics
Simple- goals simple= better wages
What is a suburb and how did is come about?
Out lying residential area built for affluent ppl
Railroads lead to the growth
What is Vaudeville?
A new attraction (theater)
Originated for the poor (A/A) and developed for the rich
What are muckrakers?
Ppl who focused on the negative side of American life
CNN
What is the interstate commerce act?
Counteracts previous decision that had struck down individual states ability to regulate the railroad.
