Week 2: Labor and Capital in the Gilded Age
A new type of production that led to the assembly line
What is Taylorism?
The transportation network that covered the U.S. from the East coast to the West coast
What is the transcontinental railroad?
The violent and public killing, usually of Black men, by racist mobs. Usually done to intimidate, threaten, or punish
What is lynching?
A U.S. navy ship that sunk in Havana (Cuba) and helped motivate the U.S. to enter the Spanish-American War
What is the U.S.S. Maine?
Wealthy individuals, like Andrew Carnegie, who built their wealth through exploiting the working class
Who are the "Robber Barons"?
An event where the Colorado militia massacred peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho people, mostly women and children. Part of the "Indian Wars" that opened the West for colonization
What is the Sand Creek Massacre?
A journalist and anti-lynching and civil rights advocate
Who is Ida B. Wells?
People who portrayed information in a sensational way (and sometimes lied) in order to make more $$
What are Yellow Journalists?
A ideology that justified racist and classist views by using the concept of "survival of the fittest" to apply to people
What is Social Darwinism?
Was the official start of allotment, or the policy of granting individual parcels of land to attempt to assimilate, or "civilize", indigenous peoples
What is the Dawes Act?
The legal system of segregation and political disenfranchisement that created a racial hierarchy where whites were on top
What is Jim Crow/Juan Crow?
A group of U.S. businessmen in the sugar industry, with support of the U.S. government, successfully overthrew Queen Liliuokalani. Support to keep this land grew during the Spanish-American War for naval strategy
What is the Annexation of Hawaii?
A protest for the 8 hour work day where anarchists and Chicago police clashed and there were casualties on both sides
What is the Haymarket Affair/Haymarket Riot?
An indigenous religious and cultural movement that was seen as a threat by the U.S. Army and eventually led to the Wounded Knee Massacre
What is the Ghost Dance?
A significant film that showed the myth of the Lost Cause and helped popularize the KKK and portrayed Black men as a threat to white women
What is Birth of a Nation?
One major example is the Chinese Exclusion Act
What is Anti-Immigrant Sentiment?
A labor activist and the first (and only?) Socialist to run for President in the U.S.
Who is Eugene Debs?
The concept that historian Frederick Jackson Turner populariazed that argued that America was shaped by the frontier experience. Specifically cheap and “free” land, which created opportunity, self-reliance, and individualism
What is the Frontier Thesis?
The myth that argued that Southern States/Confederacy fought for states rights and not for the system of slavery
What is the Lost Cause?
The U.S. backed a preferred candidate in a civil war to preserve business interests $$
What is American intervention in Mexico?