Civil War
The dominant theory that white workers used racism to exclude other workers from the labor market, which Bloom describes as insufficient
What is Split Labor Market Theory?
This overproduced southern agricultural stock led to 3 million unemployed in 1877 and revolts among farmers in debt.
What is cotton?
This socialist, trade unionist and public speaker was convicted under the Espionage Act, and ran for president 5 times, once from prison.
Who is Eugene V. Debs?
This famous case ruled that segregation in public schools violated the 14th Amendment, and sparked Southern resistance coalitions to protest.
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
This military incident involving North Vietnamese patrol boats gave President Johnson the authority to increase US military presence in the region.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)?
These anti-vagrancy laws and other criminal charges were used to label large group of criminals that could be hired out for labor
What are Black Codes?
This event brought federal troops out of the south, helping northern industrialists fight the union front and the south counter the revolting farmers, and eventually led to the rollback of many Reconstruction gains.
What is the Hayes-Tilden election?
This bug devastated the South's agriculture in the 20th century by destroying millions of acres of crop land, weakening the Southern aristocrats' resistance to change.
What is the boll weevil?
The intra-racial tensions among wealthy and impoverished Black Americans led to this shift in consciousness and leadership among Black orgs, such as the NAACP in the 1950s.
This incident of brutality in South Vietnam and the photos it produced was a turning point in the Vietnam war, which highlighted the inhumane tactics US forces were taking.
What is the My Lai massacre?
The rise of this political movement in the 1830s contributed to rising tensions between the north and the south.
What is abolitionism?
This mass organization founded in 1866 championed the eight-hour work day, and included skilled and non-skilled laborers, as well as women and Blacks, and paved the way for future movements like the Knights of Labor.
What is the National Labor Union (NLU)?
This piece of legislation was pivotal in workers' movements, prohibiting corporations from discriminating against union members and protecting whistleblowers from backlash, and establishing the national labor relations board.
What is the Wagner Act of 1935?
This student-led resistance movement raised the intensity of the fight for civil rights by taking risks as well as large-scale organizing, such as the Freedom Rides and Freedom Summer.
What is the Student Non Violence Coordinating Committee (SNCC)?
This popular term arose to describe rebellion against military authority in Vietnam, of which at least 788 incidences are recorded from 1969 to 1972.
What is fragging?
This narrative claims that the Civil War was waged by the South in order to maintain their way of life and states' rights.
What is the "Lost Cause" narrative?
This strike was the first in the industry that stretched multiple state lines led President Hayes to deploy the national guard and fire on strikers
What is the Great Railroad Strike of 1887/ The Great Upheaval?
This civil rights initiative started during world war 2, and sought a military victory over fascism abroad and a victory against systemic racism and segregation at home, as well as pushing for new deal legislation that brought jobs to Black communities
What is the Double V Campaign?
This civil rights win legally prohibited literacy tests and established the pre-clearance requirement, which prohibited specific legal changes pending the approval of the US attorney general.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
Inspired by protests of the CRM, this incident occurred during a campus strike in 1970, and killed 4 unarmed students protesting the Cambodian Expansion.
What is the Kent State Massacre?
This act instituted military conscription on a federal scale for the first time in U.S. History.
What is the Draft Act of 1863?
This member of the populist party is most famously quoted stating: "You are deceived and blinded that you may not see how this race antagonism perpetuates a monetary system which beggars you both."
Who is/What is Tom Watson?
This political rebellion by white Southern democrats protested Harry Truman's concessions to the civil rights movement, like desegregating the military, and set the stage for further backlash against the Second Reconstruction
What is the Dixiecrat Revolt?
This campaign, in response to the CRM, sought freedom from economic want and insecurities like housing, healthcare, and welfare services, and brought poverty rates down into the mid-70s, but it's barely remembered today.
What is the freedom budget?
This U.S. President characterized the war in Vietnam as a tragedy in which “the destruction was mutual."
Who is Jimmy Carter?