History 1200 Midterm
History 1200 with Watts at University of Missouri- Columbia
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By: Derrick Price
Textbook:
Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)
Up From Slavery - Booker Washington
Created: 2010-10-12
Size: 121 flashcards
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century) Up From Slavery - Booker WashingtonCreated: 2010-10-12
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Market Revolution
People pursue self interest
Everything has monetary value
People interact as free and competing individuals
Everything has monetary value
People interact as free and competing individuals
Household economy
Agricultural
People grew their own food
task oriented work/labor
People grew their own food
task oriented work/labor
Paternalism
Idea society was organized around family
Male was head of the household
Community orientated
Strong protects weak
Male was head of the household
Community orientated
Strong protects weak
Domesticity
The home was the center of American life
Aimed towards women
Aimed towards women
Sylvester Graham
Author that gave advice to men to help them succeed and control sexual urges
Catherine Beecher
Wrote books on Domesticity
Temperance
Self control, abstinence from alcohol
Ostend Manifesto
1850's
Political figures planned for southern expansion to central/south america
Political figures planned for southern expansion to central/south america
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Captured north's critique of slavery
Captured north's critique of slavery
George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All!
Said north was a society of cannibals
Southern paternalism was his utopia
Said northern factories had a wage slavery worse than slavery in the south
Southern paternalism was his utopia
Said northern factories had a wage slavery worse than slavery in the south
Singer Sewing Company
Part of industrialization
Free Labor
Ideas that presented slavery as a threat to a white male economic independence.
If slavery were to move west, it would destroy that option because there would be less industrialization and they wouldn't be able to compete with slave labor.
If slavery were to move west, it would destroy that option because there would be less industrialization and they wouldn't be able to compete with slave labor.
Planter Elite
Highest class of Southern society in the 1800s leading up to the Civil War. They were the minority of the population at the time, controlling 90% of the South's wealth through the ownership of various cotton plantations.
Wage Slavery
The idea that wages controlled peoples life
When people were given low wages, but remained slaves for who they worked for
When people were given low wages, but remained slaves for who they worked for
Bleeding Kansas
Kansas applied for statehood
Elections held for if slavery is wanted
Both sides moved to Kansas to vote
Gorilla Warfare
Elections held for if slavery is wanted
Both sides moved to Kansas to vote
Gorilla Warfare
Andrew Johnson
Took office after Lincolns death
Attempted impeachment by radical republicans
Attempted impeachment by radical republicans
Radical Republicans
Led by Thaddeus Stevens
Believed south had committed treason
Thought south should be punished
Fans of marketplace
Believed south had committed treason
Thought south should be punished
Fans of marketplace
Freedman's Bureau
Provided food and medical care, to help the freedmen to resettle, to ensure justice for the freedmen, to manage abandoned or confiscated property, to regulate labor, and to establish schools.
Jim Crow Laws
Laws that separated the races
Redeemer
Get an industrialized south
Free market
Reimpose white supremacy
KKK
Free market
Reimpose white supremacy
KKK
Transcontinental railroad
Link the continents together
Oklahoma Land Rush
1889
By 1893 the land was filled up
Former Indian territory
By 1893 the land was filled up
Former Indian territory
Horatio Alger
American Author
Wrote about rural men struggling when moving to the city
Wrote about rural men struggling when moving to the city
Andrew Carnegie
Steel industry
1880's
Became cultural figure
Family man; religious
1880's
Became cultural figure
Family man; religious
Gospel of Wealth
Said business man should give back to the community
Confidence man
Do anything to make a buck
Jay Gould
Railroad tycoon
Participated in New York Gold Conspiracy
Participated in New York Gold Conspiracy
New York Gold Conspiracy
Jay Gould and friend bought most of the gold on the market, then sold it back for profit
Kosher Food Riot
Riot that was caused by a raise in meat prices
People burned meat in response to the higher price
People burned meat in response to the higher price
Pullman Strike
Railroad union went on strike
Caused the industry to stop
National Guard Called
Caused the industry to stop
National Guard Called
Tram Culture
Hobo's
Share Cropping
Loaned land
Farmers gave % of earnings to land owners
Made farmers enslaved to the land
Farmers gave % of earnings to land owners
Made farmers enslaved to the land
The Grange
1860's -1870's
1.5 Million members
Farmers buying and selling things collectively
1.5 Million members
Farmers buying and selling things collectively
National Farmers Alliance
1889
For government regulation of railroads
Wanted a lower tariff
Federal income tax
For government regulation of railroads
Wanted a lower tariff
Federal income tax
The peoples party (populist)
Farmers political party
1892 Convention in St. Louis
Tom Watson is the leader
22 Electoral votes
More successful at the state level
Crossed racial boundaries
Reached out to factory workers
1892 Convention in St. Louis
Tom Watson is the leader
22 Electoral votes
More successful at the state level
Crossed racial boundaries
Reached out to factory workers
Tom Watson
Leader of Populist party
National Railroad Strike
1877
Hay-market Riot
Chicago 1886
People killed by Molotov cocktail
8 radicals arrested (4 of them hung to death)
People killed by Molotov cocktail
8 radicals arrested (4 of them hung to death)
Coxey's Army
20% unemployment
Unemployed go to Washington and demand money
Many people are former soldiers and scare the government
Gov. busts up the scene
Unemployed go to Washington and demand money
Many people are former soldiers and scare the government
Gov. busts up the scene
Eugine v. Debs
Becomes the leader of the American Socialist Party
Radical
Radical
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
1880's
Economic objectives
Endorsed collective bargaining
Higher wages, lower hours, better working conditions
Rejects: women, unskilled labor, African Americans, political parties
1880's
Economic objectives
Endorsed collective bargaining
Higher wages, lower hours, better working conditions
Rejects: women, unskilled labor, African Americans, political parties
Samuel Gompers
Leader of American Fed. of Labor
Scientific Racism
Slavs, etc. are inferior to northern Europeans
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senator of Mass.
Proponent of Anglo Saxon race
Proponent of Anglo Saxon race
Race Suicide
Theodore Roosevelt
Victorians have few children and immigrants have many
Roosevelt urges Victorians to have more children
Victorians have few children and immigrants have many
Roosevelt urges Victorians to have more children
Theodore Roosevelt
Rough Rider
Represented Victorian decline
Loved limelight
Spanish American War
Represented Victorian decline
Loved limelight
Spanish American War
Monopoly Capitalism
An environment where the state intervenes in the economy to protect large monopolistic business from smaller firms
Charles Schwab
President of US Steel
Standard Time
Time railroads set up to rationalize ways to operate
Herbert Spencer
Writer
Wrote about business and business men
Noted the stress on business men
Said men need tome to relax
Wrote about business and business men
Noted the stress on business men
Said men need tome to relax
Neurasthenia
Insomnia, fear of responsibility, feeling hopeless
George M Beard
Neurologist who popularized the term neurasthenia
Spanish American War
Americas first foreign war
Global conflict
Global conflict
Men of Dartmouth
Poem/song
About the football team
Ivy leauge
About the football team
Ivy leauge
Yellow Press
Type of journalism that exaggerated events
Pulitzer vs Hearst
Pulitzer vs Hearst
William McKinley
Pressed for war on Spain
The Philippines
Spanish American war
George Dewey Becomes a hero
George Dewey Becomes a hero
Admiral George Dewey
Becomes hero in the Philippines
Admiral of the Navy
Admiral of the Navy
Emilio Aguinaldo
Followers expected Philippines independence
followers turn against americans and caused gorilla warfare
Eventually captured
followers turn against americans and caused gorilla warfare
Eventually captured
Rough Riders
Special force recruited by Teddy Roosevelt
Consisted of college football players and cowboys
Become hero's at San Juan hill
Become symbols for Victorian regeneration
Consisted of college football players and cowboys
Become hero's at San Juan hill
Become symbols for Victorian regeneration
William James
Harvard
Denounced the Spanish American War
Denounced the Spanish American War
Mark Twain
American Authors
Bitter against Spanish American War
Bitter against Spanish American War
Credit Mobilier Trust
Railroad companies pay off senate to not investigate activity
Bossism
Big Cities
Provide services to immigrants
In return immigrants were to give political loyalty
Political Machines
Provide services to immigrants
In return immigrants were to give political loyalty
Political Machines
Tammany Hall
Ran New York
George Washington Plunkett
Journalist made Plunkett spill the beans on his "machine"
George Washington Plunkett
Journalist made Plunkett spill the beans on his "machine"
Muckrakers
Investigative Journalist
Wrote of political problems
Wrote of political problems
Ida Tarbell
Muckraker
Wrote History of Standard Oil
Wrote History of Standard Oil
Lincoln Steffens
Muckraker
Initiative and Referendum
Petitions
Returned politics to people
Returned politics to people
Robert Lafellette
Progressive from Wisconsin
Gov. of Wisconsin
Champion of local progressivism
Gov. of Wisconsin
Champion of local progressivism
Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program formed upon three basic ideas: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.
Aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking the plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the extreme demands of organized labor.
Aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking the plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the extreme demands of organized labor.
National Civic Federation
Federation of American businesses and labor leaders founded in 1900.
It favoured moderate progressive reform and sought to resolve disputes arising between industry and organized labor.
It favoured moderate progressive reform and sought to resolve disputes arising between industry and organized labor.
New Nationalism
Theodore Roosevelt political policy
The central issue he argued was government protection of human welfare and property rights.
He insisted that only a powerful federal government could regulate the economy and guarantee social justice.
The central issue he argued was government protection of human welfare and property rights.
He insisted that only a powerful federal government could regulate the economy and guarantee social justice.
Consumer Capitalism
Political theory based on the belief that consumer demand is manipulated, in a deliberate and coordinated way, on a very large scale, through mass-marketing techniques, to the advantage of sellers.
Move from oil and steel to consumer products
Move from oil and steel to consumer products
Bureaucracies
Body of non elected government officials
Woodrow Wilson
President
Local Progressive
Anti War
Victorian Christian Gentleman
In 1917 he endorses involvement in WWI
Local Progressive
Anti War
Victorian Christian Gentleman
In 1917 he endorses involvement in WWI
Selective Service Act
3 Million men inducted into the army
George Creel, Committee on Public Information
Wanted anti war pamphlets banned
Propaganda Campaign against Germans
Propaganda Campaign against Germans
Leauge of Nations
Prototype of UN
Woodrow Wilson's brain child
US never joined
Woodrow Wilson's brain child
US never joined
Treaty of Versailles
Treaty that said Germans needed to pay $ for the war
Chicago Race Riots
Whites fighting blacks
Several dozen killed
Several dozen killed
Red Scare
Fear for spread of communism
A Mitchel Palmer
Threw labor radicals in jail
Scientific Management
Managing people based on science and efficency
Fredrick Winslow Taylor
Engineer
Obsessed with order/cleanliness
Wrote principals of scientific management
Thought work should be done without thinking
Obsessed with order/cleanliness
Wrote principals of scientific management
Thought work should be done without thinking
Hawthorne Experiments
Studies efficiency
Workers worked harder when being observed
Workers worked harder when being observed
Elton Mayo
Held Hawthorne Experiments
Industrial Psychology
Doing things to improve worker efficiency
Music, Lounge areas
Music, Lounge areas
IWW
Industrial Workers of the World
Wobblies
Big Bill Haywood was the leader
Good success in mining ind.
Crushed in red scare
Wobblies
Big Bill Haywood was the leader
Good success in mining ind.
Crushed in red scare
AFL
American Fed. of Labor
Samuel Gompers
Protective Legislation
Samuel Gompers
Protective Legislation
Protective Legislation
Saftey standards
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Managers locked doors so workers could not goof off
Women burned in fire or jumped out windows
Women burned in fire or jumped out windows
National Labor Board
Made to deal with labor problems
Henry Ford
Assembly line
Automobile becomes leading consumer item
Michigan
Automobile becomes leading consumer item
Michigan
Personality
Is the key to advance in companies
Abundance
People want many things
Spending not saving
Self fulfillment
Spending not saving
Self fulfillment
Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People
About personality
Explains how personality helps people to advance and get ahead
Explains how personality helps people to advance and get ahead
Domestic Science
Examine family life and give suggestions on how to improve
good housekeeping
war on germs
good housekeeping
war on germs
Bruce Barton, The Man Nobody Knows
Best seller
Biography of Jesus
Said Jesus was the founder of modern business
Biography of Jesus
Said Jesus was the founder of modern business
Sinclair Lewis, Babbit
Babbit is a realestate agent, middle class, cliche of 1920's
Attracted to socialism
Novel suggest that there are cracks on the surface of life at this time
Attracted to socialism
Novel suggest that there are cracks on the surface of life at this time
Prohibition
Brought about a blackmarket
Speakeasys
Speakeasys
Billy Sunday
Preached Gospel
Preached immorality of modern day
Preached immorality of modern day
Scopes Trial
Tennessee
John Scopes brought to trial for teaching evolution
John Scopes brought to trial for teaching evolution
Ku Klux Klan
Aimed at immigrants and African Americans
Sacco and Vanzetti
Italian Immigrants
Radicals
Accused of committing murder
death penalty
Radicals
Accused of committing murder
death penalty
Lost Generation
Generation after WWI
Flappers
Women who rejected victorian ideals
Marcus Garvy
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Black Equality
Militant
Black Capitalism (making their own businesses)
Suggested they should move back to Africa
Eventually went to jail
Black Equality
Militant
Black Capitalism (making their own businesses)
Suggested they should move back to Africa
Eventually went to jail
Black Nationalism
Blacks unite
Harlem Renaissance
Jazz
Black Culture
Langston Hughes
Black Culture
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
Poet, novelist
Known for work with Harlem renaissance
Known for work with Harlem renaissance
Louis Armstrong
Jazz trumpeter
Harlem renaissance
Harlem renaissance
Bessie Smith
Famous blues singer
Rutherford B. Hayes
Won 19th presidency
Lost popular vote to Samuel Tilden
Lost popular vote to Samuel Tilden
Samuel Tilden
Won popular vote in presidential election to Rutherford B. Hayes
Compromise of 1877
Hayes would take presidency if he would remove troops in republican state governments
The New South
Impoverished south after the civil war
Crop Lien System
When farmers gave portion of earnings to land owners
Farmers got land on credit
Farmers got land on credit
Industrial Capitalism
Market based on oil and steel
Knights of Labor
Labor organization
Rejected radicalism and socialism
Demanded 8 hour work day
Never well organized
Rejected radicalism and socialism
Demanded 8 hour work day
Never well organized
Liberal Protestantism
Diluted version of protestant
About this deck
By: Derrick Price
Textbook: Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century)
Up From Slavery - Booker Washington
Created: 2010-10-12
Size: 121 flashcards
Views: 392
Textbook:
Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century (American Century) Up From Slavery - Booker WashingtonCreated: 2010-10-12
Size: 121 flashcards
Views: 392
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