Life for Black people and Indigenous people
The person who originally said the phrase, "Kill the Indian, save the man."
Who was Captain Richard Henry Pratt?
When the wealth in a society is divided extremely unequally
What is wealth inequality?
A thin coating of gold or silver covering something less valuable or attractive
What does gilded mean?
The laws that were very similar to Black Codes.
What were the Jim Crow Laws?
The name for people who were used to break up strikes.
What were scabs/strikebreakers?
Executing someone without a fair trial, especially when race is a factor in their murder.
What is lynching?
When a company has total or almost total control over a commodity or service and can set whatever price they want to as a result.
What is a monopoly?
The term that helps bosses to treat their employees well, but not too well.
What are problems with capitalism?
The ruling that segregation was legal as long as the facilities were separate but equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The eight hour workday, end of child labor, and higher wages.
What are (some of) the victories of the Labor Movement?
A famous Black journalist who spoke out against lynching.
Who was Ida B. Wells?
The statement by a Supreme Court Justice in the Plessy v. Ferguson that was later the doctrine that segregation was later based upon.
What is "Separate but equal"?
What the Gilded Age was characterized by.
What is extreme wealth inequality?
Laws that were passed by states as a means to maintain a racial hierarchy in the 1880s and 1890s.
What were Jim Crow Laws?
Many different groups of people who came together during the Gilded Age to protest the lack of protections for workers.
Why were unions formed in the Gilded Age?
Schools that tried to forcefully assimilate Indigenous children into white American culture across the US and Canada.
What were Indian boarding schools?
Prices in the marketplace are set by the market itself (not by outside regulation).
What is capitalism?
The process of making an industrial economy.
What is industrialization?
This act outlawed monopolies in 1890, but it was hard to enforce.
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act?
The 2 main strategies that workers and other people used to lessen or stop the profit that the bosses made.
What are boycotts and strikes?
The dance that was a form of resilience against the US Federal Government/Army that was spread across the West by Sitting Bull and others.
What is the Ghost Dance?
The process of incorporating people into the dominant culture at the expense of their own culture
What is assimilation?
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Extra b/c I couldn't find anymore laws or acts: The act that aimed to assimilate Native Americans into US society by breaking up their tribes' land holdings into private properties. It was also used to break up tribes and communities, because people are not as strong alone as they are in groups.
What is the Dawes Act of 1887?
Racism, sexism and "radicalism" in the Labor Movement, these drove people apart. In addition, these helped to stop unions from forming and becoming stronger.
What were the limits of the labor movement?