Reactionary Labor and Political Movements
What were the reasons farmers conditions worsened and what were Grain elevators?
The exploitation of grain elevator pricing and unnecessary, expensive middleman financers, and railroads. Grain elevators were where people mostly farmers stored their grain
Additionally, masses of new immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe, as well as many Jews escaping what? And many Chinese immigrants came to the U.S for?
Immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe as well as many Jews were escaping persecution and came to America for opportunities and Chinese immigrants came seeking refuge from famine and conflict
What was Social Darwinism?
It was pseudoscientific extension of natural selection to society - which implied that the rich were genetically fit for survival more than a poor person and also was used to justify that a rich person's position as atop of society to where they would strive and thrive while the working class would struggle and perish
What was the National Labor Union and the Knights of Labor?
They were organizations as early attempts to unionize and rose in popularity
What were enclaves and what was an example of one in modern times?
Enclaves were self segregated districts that became mini versions of their home countries, an example of an enclave in modern times is in Edison there is a enclave of Desi culture.
What was the Gospel of Wealth and what did it propose?
The Gospel of Wealth was an article issued by Andrew Carnegie that explains the philanthropic responsibility of the new upper class of self-made rich and he proposed in this book that the new phenomenon of wealth inequality was for the wealthy to utilize their surplus means in a responsible and thoughtful manner
What was the AFL and what did they strive to accomplish?
The AFL was an organization formed by Samuel Gompers and it focused on simple, small changes such as wages and hours but also formed trade union federations kept skilled and unskilled labor is largely segregated but jointly unified against employers
Why were many people holding a prejudice against Catholic, Jewish, and Asian Immigrants?
Nativists thought them a threat to their Protestant/Western culture and language as well as a threat to wage labor
What was the Greenback Party side of the argument on the U.S financial policy and money supply?
They argued that for the expansion of the printed money market such as the successful use of the printed money treasury notes by the North during the Civil War
What was the case where a group called the Grange won discounts for farming machinery and were able to set a max price on grain storage rates?
Munn vs. Illinois
On the Eastern Coast, Irish, Eastern, and Southern European immigrants were primary targets but who were the primary targets in the West Coast? And what was the Chinese Exclusion Act?
Primary targets in the West Coast were the Chinese Immigrants even leading to the Chinese Exclusion Act which was an act that banned all Chinese Immigrants from entering the United States.
What was the Act in 1890 that required the U.S. Treasury to purchase 4.5 million ounces of silver per month in order to stabilize and increase the U.S. money supply with backed silver
The Sherman Silver Purchase Act
The political party of this populist movement was known as?
The People Party
What were some ways the U.S Government tried to remove the Natives culture?
They eliminated the buffalos herds, a hunter known a Buffalo Bill eliminated 9 million buffalo from 1872-1875, when the Natives got together in the Ghost Dance Movement the U.S Government thought they were assibling to retaliate so they tried to peacefully disarm them which led to the death of scores of Native which is known as the Wounded Knee, and they sent the Native children to boarding schools that taught them the American culture and erased the Native culture.
What event when it broke, caused President Grover Cleveland to oversee the repeal of the act to prevent the depletion of the government's gold reserves
The Panic of 1893