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| What are the four key terms for the "New South"? |
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Populism
Disfranchisement
Plessy v. Ferguson
W.E.B. du Bois |
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| What happened to the rail road tracks ten years after Reconstruction? |
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| Since the South had cheap labor, they had plentiful what? |
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| Who did the South pass in the amount of textile production they produced? |
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| Why was the South a good place to farm? (2) |
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| Flat land, and many rivers |
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| How was settlement in the South? |
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| Very dispersed. No big cities |
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| How is the South starting out behind the North? (2) |
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| Industrialization and Urbanization. (South never catches up) |
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| In 1860 what percent of industrial input did the South bring in? |
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| In 1900 what percent of industrial input did the South bring in? |
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| What percent of the Southern population in 1850 was working in the industry? |
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| What percent of the Southern population in 1900 was working in the industry? |
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| What did the South offer to the workers? |
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| Lower wages than the north |
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| Since the workers were being paid poorly, they couldn't be on a market as everyone else. What would this slow down? |
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| Where would the immigrants want to work, North or South? why? |
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| Before the millions of immigrants coming into the U.S., what was the population of immigrants in the south? What about when the large group of immigrants came in? |
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About 10%,
About 2%,
(The region of capital is awful) |
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| What is a major crop in the South after the Civil War? |
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| What happened when the farmers found out they could use the rail roads? |
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| Most of them switched to cotton to make a little more money, but as more and more switched, the price of cotton was cheaper. Also, they weren't producing as much food, and they had to start getting food imported |
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How much per pound was cotton in:
1871?
1894? |
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18 Cents per pound
<5 Cents per pound |
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| Farmers had to use credit and collateral, how? |
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| The collateral was mostly the cotton, and then they used that as credit to buy supplies they need |
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| The debt grew greater in the South, so what happened to farmers? |
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| They lost their land, and had to become share croppers |
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| What was the Farmers Alliance? |
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| They tried to give supplies for a cheap price |
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| When was there a rise of the populist party? |
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| Late 19th early 20th century |
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| What was the subtreasury plan? |
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| When the populist party wanted to store the excess crops in a warehouse that was provided by the government to make more money for the farmers (get more credit) |
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| What kind of currency did the populist party want to use? |
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| What is one key thing that are basically controlling farmers? |
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| Who did the populist party go to for help, and who was there target audience? |
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| The government, and all whites and blacks |
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| What was the Populist party also refereed to as? |
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| Who didn't want everybody joining together? Why? |
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| The powerful whites. Because they knew that the populist party was right |
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| Did the populist party make it anywhere in politics? |
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| They got some governance, but not presidency |
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| Before the 1890's some blacks were voting and serving in government, but what happened in 1890? |
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| There was a backlash when the children that were born after the Civil War wanted to keep the country the way it was because their family members said that it was a lot better when they had it back to normal. |
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| Were these people in the flashcard before this for or against the populist party? |
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| What are three things that put restrictions on blacks? |
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| Disfranchisement, Jim Crow Laws, and Lynching |
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| What is disfranchisement? |
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| Taking away the right to vote. |
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| What were three restrictions that took away the right to vote for blacks? |
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| Poll taxes, Literacy Tests, and the Grandfather Clause |
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| Taxes that stopped people from voting |
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| you could vote if you could read something. |
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| What is the Grandfather clause? |
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| You could vote if you Grandfather could vote |
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| What are the Jim Crow laws? |
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| laws that segregated different aspects of southern society (legal separation of the races in the South) |
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| Where were Jim Crow laws? (4) |
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| Mainly public areas like transportation, sidewalks, schools, movies, etc. |
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| How did the black people in Louisiana respond to the Jim Crow Laws? |
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| With Homer Plessy sitting on a white rail road cart, and he was 1/8 black. He was arrested and went all the way to the supreme court with the case Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) |
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| What did the determine in Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)? |
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| The blacks are "Separate but Equal." It doesn't show them as inferior and doesn't affect their civil equality, and even though it might effect their social equality, that is not handled in the law. |
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| What did the court case Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) tell state legislatures? |
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| The separate facilities were almost never equal especially schools until 1954 with Brown vs. Board of education |
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| A mob of whites to assert deadly justice on blacks |
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| What was lynching mostly about? |
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| It tried to stop blacks from stepping out of line |
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| What were most cases of lynching on? |
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| When a black person tried to take the purity of a whit woman (mostly sexual matters) |
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| What happens if a black store owner does better than a white? |
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| About how many people were getting lynched every year? |
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| What are the White primacy jubilees? |
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| What some blacks refereed to white lynchers as |
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| There was a big movement to the north for blacks, but the ones that stayed in the south had to be very careful. |
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| Who founded the Tuskegee Institute? |
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| What did Booker T. Washington tell blacks to do? |
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| Follow what the White people wanted and then they would gain respect. |
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| What are accomodationists? |
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| When the blacks followed the white societies rules |
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| Who was the first African American to get their P.H.D. at Harvard? |
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| What did W.E.B. du Bois tell blacks to do? |
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| Try to pursue higher opportunities in life. He went against Booker T. Washington |
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| What did W.E.B. du Bois create? |
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| The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) |
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| Who were The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)? |
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| What are the three key terms when it comes to Western Settlement? |
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Homestead Act (1863),
Reservation Policy,
and Dawes Severalty Act (1887) |
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| What was one of the first, and major moves to the west? |
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| The gold rush in California |
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| How would the people moving west get there before Rail Roads? |
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| Before Rail roads, there were 7 million people West. After railroads, how many were there? |
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| Who is bringing the West under its control? |
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| The west could not have developed without the railroads. How did the railroads get the land to go west? |
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| The government provided land to them |
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| With more and more people looking for gold, it become harder to strike rich. If someone did strike rich, what would happen to that town? |
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| It would be completely filled with people until there was no more left, and then the town would disperse |
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| In these mining towns, what was the ratio of women to men? |
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| What was a very famous store/ restaurant in the west? |
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| What were the towns mainly around? Why? |
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| Railroads, to get canned food and other needs |
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| Mining was just like a business. They complained about their hours and wages, what were formed? |
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| Basically farming animals |
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| What was a major animal used in cattle ranching? Why? |
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| Texas Longhorns because the north needs food, and they have too many people to feed themselves, so beef becomes a major product |
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| what does open range mean? |
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| The government doesn't own that land, so you are free to let your cattle graze it unless authorized other |
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| What invention sectioned off peoples land? |
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| Ranching is a big business, and cowboys were waged laborers that also had restrictions |
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| Why did a lot of people move west? |
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| What did the Homestead Act say? |
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| Once you farm on a piece of land for 5 years, you would get 160 acres. |
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| What land is not usable? (1) and why was the homestead act bad? (2) |
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Railroad land,
and sometimes you were no where near the railroad (2 days away), and sometimes the land is not fertile |
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| What kind of houses did people in the west live in? |
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| Where you would get chunks of the dirt from the ground and build a house with that. |
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| When basic human needs become hard to get. |
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| What are two examples of something being scarce in the West? |
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| Since the land that had water on it was more expensive, how did some farmers get water? |
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| They had to make long trips to get it |
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| Many farmers need machinery. Farms in the west were struggling like farms in the south. |
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| What was a major crop in the west? |
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| Which party were the western farmers drawn too? |
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| Who did Americans compete against for resources? |
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| Compare and Contrast Native Americans and Euro-Americans with nature. |
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Native Americans- Harmony with Nature
Euro-American- Celebration to dominate natural elements |
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| Compare and Contrast Native Americans and Euro-Americans with property. |
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Native Americans- Property is shared as a community (Communal sense)
Euro-American- Individually owned |
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| Compare and Contrast Native Americans and Euro-Americans with production,. |
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Native Americans- Subsistence production (produce something when it is needed)
Euro-American- Surplus production (When you produce more than you can consume, then you sell the surplus to make a profit |
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| What did the Army do to get rid of all the Indians? When the army did this, which tribe surrendered? |
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| Killed all of the buffalo, the Sioux Indians |
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| The relocation of large Indian groups. (Forced to move somewhere else, and the government said they would help them, but they broke that promise |
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| What is Americanizing the Indians? |
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| Trying to make them look and act like humans. |
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| What happened at Wounded Knee? |
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| The last group of the Sioux Indians that kept resisting Americanization, and they relied on the Religion to bring their ancestors back to help them out with the battle |
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| Indians were completely transformed. Men would farm and the women would bake. |
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| What did the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 do? |
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| The reservation of land were to be divided up by individual owners. Each house must have their own plot of land to farm. This moved the Indians out of the way |
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| What would the government do to the land that was left over in the Indian reservations? |
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| Where history is passed down verbally |
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| What was the name of the Indian who was always running from the American troops? |
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| What kind of man was Geronimo? |
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| A medicine man (Blessed men) |
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| What happened to Geronimo's family? |
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| All killed by the Spanish army right in front of his face |
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| READ THE END OF PAGE 10 AND THE BEGINNING OF PAGE 11 IN YOUR NOTES BECAUSE YOU WERE TOO LAZY TO TYPE THEM, AND YOU ARE GOING TO DICKS. IT'S THE NOTES ON THE FILM. |
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