Labor in the Gilded Age
What is 20%?
This was the bloodiest day of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
What is the name of this era of segregation called?
What is Jim Crow?
What industry did Farmers want to regulate?
What are the railroads?
These were the people who wanted to end slavery.
Who are abolititonists?
These were the immigrants who built the railroads in the western part of the United States.
Who were the Chinese?
This battle took place between 2 ships.
What are the Monitor and the Merrimack?
What is De Facto segregation?
Segregation by practice or custom.
What animal was destroyed in the attempts to move Native Americans off of their homeland.
What is the buffalo?
This person was a very religious white man who used violence against others who would not end slavery.
Who is John Brown?
These were the dirty, overcrowded apartments that most of the poor lived in.
What are tenements?
This battle was a turning point in the Civil War where Robert E. Lee lost when he failed to take the high ground.
What is Gettysburg?
An extra-judicial killing, normally by a mob, often in public and most often, the victim is hung.
Why did people move out West? You must provide at least two answers.
What are:
- For land, gold, adventure, escape the East Coast, jobs in the cattle industry.
What was decided in the Dred Scott case?
That Black people were not citizens (and therefore, could not sue).
This was one of the tactics that management used when labor went on strike and it prevented workers from accessing their factories.
What are lockouts?
In this battle, the city was surrounded by Union soldiers for 9 months.
What is Petersburg?
What was decided in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case?
It established the doctrine of Separate by Equal between blacks and whites.
What was the new political party that emerged that supported the common man and despised rich people?
What is the Populist Party, or Populism.
Why did Dred Scott sue for his freedom?
Because he lived for a while in free territory in Illinois and Wisconsin.
This strike affected so many national industries and was so disruptive, that for the first time, the president called out federal troops to break up the strike.
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877.
In this battle, the Union destroyed railroads in their attempt to take control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
Explain what happened in Wilmington, NC.
1. There was an election where both Blacks and whites won seats on the city council and other positions.
2. A mob of whites did not like that and they ran the mayor and other Blacks out of office.
3. They burned the Black newspaper and other Black businesses.
4. It was the first time that a democratically elected government was overthrown in the United States.
List at least 3 of the demands made by farmers.
What are:
- Make cash more available, have the dollar be backed by silver, not gold, restrict immigration, a single term for president and vice president, vote for senators by popular election, and have an 8-hour work day.
The idea that states should decide the issue of slavery.
Popular Sovereignty.