Industry and Daily Life
Before the rise of factories who did most people work for?
Themselves
What were 2 issues for women in this time period?
Voting, no freedom, alcohol abuse, etc.
What do we call the lands that Indigenous peoples were forced to settle on?
Reservations
What were living conditions like in early cities?
Overcrowded/cramped, dirty, diseases.
What time period/event after the Civil War, when the country had to be "rebuilt", led to the Jim Crow South?
Reconstruction
Why did many farmers lose their jobs and have to move to cities?
Better technology/machines were invented
What did Susan B. Anthony do to get famous for getting arrested?
Voted
What animal went nearly extinct due to settlers over hunting them and caused tremendous to various tribes?
Bison/Buffalo
Why did many African Americans move from the South to Northern cities like Chicago and New York?
Job opportunities, escape racism, more personal freedoms
What is an examle of a law in the South that was harmful to Black Americans?
HINT: Think of the Convict Leasing video
Cant sell crops after dark, cant walk beside a train track, cant be loud near white women, vagrancy laws, etc.
What were working conditions like in early factories?
Poor ventilation, dangerous machines, burns, cuts, losing limbs/fingers, loud noises/hearing problems, very long hours etc.
What issue did journalist Ida B. Wells try to expose in the South?
Lynching/Racism
What sort of work/activities ruined sacred Indigenous lands and territories?
Cutting wood, mining, railroads, building settlements. etc.
What were 2 groups of immigrants (where they came from) who had large populations in cities at this time?
Irish, Chinese, Italian, Polish, Japanese
Sharecroppers had to go into ______________ to borrow tools and supplies from white landowners.
Debt
Why would factories have preferred to hire women and children?
Pay them less, better at certain work, can't form unions
What group did Frances Willard found?
Women's Christian Temperance Movement (WCTU)
What is the name of the battle where General Custer failed miserbaly, leading to a major Indigenous victory?
Custer's Last Stand
What do we call the type of housing where someone rents a room/space in soeone elses house or apartment?
HINT: Starts with a "T"
Tenement
Explain Sharecropping.
System similar to slavery where Black farmers worked rented white land and paid back part of their crops to the owners. It was unfair and the debt was impossible to get out of.
Explain the relationship beteen Businessmen and early Labor Unions.
Daily Double: What were some tactics Businesses used to fight back against Unions?
Sometimes they were willing to negotiate, but the Robber Barons saw them as a threat to profits
DD: Pinkertons, strikebreakers, blacklisting
What issue was the "Temperance" movement trying solve?
The abuse and neglect from widespread overuse of alcohol.
Why was Sitting Bull important?
He was a respected chief of his people (Lakota Tribe) and was a strong resistor to the US government, defeating the US Army at Custer's Last Stand and promoting the "Ghost Dance" movement.
What city did Jane Addams start the setllement project "Hull House" in?
Daily Double: What were 2 services offered there?
Chicago
DD: Daycare, health clinics, adult classes, language services, legal services, job placement, etc.
Explain Convict Leasing.
Prisoners, who were mostly vblcak due to the laws, were rented out as free labor by states/prisons to businesses for profit.