Goin' West
As more mineral resources were mined and crops were found, the population of western towns (especially along railroads) grew or shrank?
Grew
Being slighted by high freight rates, storage costs, and interest rates farmers organized political and social organizations like the Grange Movement which would later become what "popular" political party?
Populist Party
This civil rights leader of the late 1800s and early 1900s who dined with Theodore Roosevelt believed that the best way to gain respect among White society and America at large was through gaining an education, working in a respectable field, and self-help would eventually lead to voting and civil rights was named...
Booker T. Washington
New technology like tractors make crop production go BRRRRRRRRR (expand). What happened to the population as a result of new farming technology?
Population rises
The fall of Chinese immigration to the US after 1882 was most likely caused by this act/law:
Chinese Exclusion Act
This transcontinental project used civil war veterans, European and Chinese immigrants, and Black former enslaved men to connect the economies of the East and West.
Transcontinental Railroad
This legislation ended poorly for Native Americans who were made to farm on tribal land after dividing tribal lands into individual plots of land for farming.
Dawes Act
Henry Grady's idea for the New South economy included the expansion of...
Industries/factories in the South and the diversification of the South's economy
Labor unions like the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor were made up by workers to do these three things
Get higher pay, decrease working hours, and improve working conditions
Nativists would have opposed and persecuted this group of people
Immigrants
A commodity is another word for a "good" for sale. As farmers made/grew more crops in the West, the price of their crops/commodities fell. Why would this be bad for farmers?
Prices fell so farmers made less money even though they were growing more crops than they had before
In addition to farming, this law was made to encourage Native Americans to assimilate into "American" culture by encouraging them to farm like their "American" counterparts. Even though the land they were given was not so suitable for farming.
Dawes Act
Ida B. Wells was a Black, female muckraking journalist (journalist proponent of social and political reform) whose primary purpose of her writings was to bring about
Anti-lynching laws to combat lynchings in the South
Samuel Gompers' American Federation of Labors accepted what kind of workers into its union?
White and Skilled
Nativists believed immigrants were doing these two things:
Taking jobs for lower pay and "ruining" White, Protestant American culture
Storage prices, high freight rates, and high interest rates led farmers to be more distrustful of what two industries?
Banks and railroads
Most Black people who left the South following Reconstruction in the late 1800s moved to cities like New York and Chicago to take industrial jobs. They likely would have abandoned this type of agricultural work used to replace slavery
The rise of factories and Industrialism in the East was fueled by resources in the West, which were transported by...
Railroads connecting the East and West
The desire for cheap labor led Industrialists (Owners of factories) to hire these TWO groups of people for work
Immigrants and children
Help immigrants adjust to American life and provide support
With further Westward expansion spurned on by the Homestead Act, Pacific Railways Act, and the Transcontinental Railroad which group of people most likely suffered from the expansion into the west?
Native Americans
DAILY DOUBLE: In 1896 Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in the "White" section of streetcar in Louisiana, Plessy v. Ferguson upheld this doctrine which came to symbolize social oppression of Black people in the US
Separate but Equal (Jim Crow)
This was the primary mode of communication by using morse code to communicate across great distances, this new form of communication, which was used at train stations was called what: (Hint it's not a telePHONE)
Telegraphs
The Pullman railroad car strike outside of Chicago was caused by the decision of the Pullman company to:
Cut pay, increase hours
Jane Addams created and maintained the Hull House in Chicago in which skilled trades were taught as well as English. Which group of people in urban areas would have most likely benefitted from this?
Immigrants