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History 2112- Day 4
Test 1- Maymester- Tompson
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Undergraduate 1
05/14/2013

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Term
What are the four key terms for the "New South"?
Definition
Populism
Disfranchisement
Plessy v. Ferguson
W.E.B. du Bois
Term
What happened to the rail road tracks ten years after Reconstruction?
Definition
They doubled
Term
Since the South had cheap labor, they had plentiful what?
Definition
Cotton
Term
Who did the South pass in the amount of textile production they produced?
Definition
New England
Term
Why was the South a good place to farm? (2)
Definition
Flat land, and many rivers
Term
How was settlement in the South?
Definition
Very dispersed. No big cities
Term
How is the South starting out behind the North? (2)
Definition
Industrialization and Urbanization. (South never catches up)
Term
In 1860 what percent of industrial input did the South bring in?
Definition
around 10%
Term
In 1900 what percent of industrial input did the South bring in?
Definition
around 10 %
Term
What percent of the Southern population in 1850 was working in the industry?
Definition
around 5%
Term
What percent of the Southern population in 1900 was working in the industry?
Definition
around 5%
Term
What did the South offer to the workers?
Definition
Lower wages than the north
Term
Since the workers were being paid poorly, they couldn't be on a market as everyone else. What would this slow down?
Definition
Economic growth
Term
Where would the immigrants want to work, North or South? why?
Definition
North, they made more
Term
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?
Definition
About 10%,
About 2%,
(The region of capital is awful)
Term
What is a major crop in the South after the Civil War?
Definition
Cotton
Term
What happened when the farmers found out they could use the rail roads?
Definition
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
Term
How much per pound was cotton in:
1871?
1894?
Definition
18 Cents per pound
<5 Cents per pound
Term
Farmers had to use credit and collateral, how?
Definition
The collateral was mostly the cotton, and then they used that as credit to buy supplies they need
Term
The debt grew greater in the South, so what happened to farmers?
Definition
They lost their land, and had to become share croppers
Term
What was the Farmers Alliance?
Definition
They tried to give supplies for a cheap price
Term
When was there a rise of the populist party?
Definition
Late 19th early 20th century
Term
What was the subtreasury plan?
Definition
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)
Term
What kind of currency did the populist party want to use?
Definition
Gold and silver currency
Term
What is one key thing that are basically controlling farmers?
Definition
Rail Roads
Term
Who did the populist party go to for help, and who was there target audience?
Definition
The government, and all whites and blacks
Term
What was the Populist party also refereed to as?
Definition
The People's party
Term
Who didn't want everybody joining together? Why?
Definition
The powerful whites. Because they knew that the populist party was right
Term
Did the populist party make it anywhere in politics?
Definition
They got some governance, but not presidency
Term
Before the 1890's some blacks were voting and serving in government, but what happened in 1890?
Definition
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.
Term
Were these people in the flashcard before this for or against the populist party?
Definition
AGAINST
Term
What are three things that put restrictions on blacks?
Definition
Disfranchisement, Jim Crow Laws, and Lynching
Term
What is disfranchisement?
Definition
Taking away the right to vote.
Term
What were three restrictions that took away the right to vote for blacks?
Definition
Poll taxes, Literacy Tests, and the Grandfather Clause
Term
What are poll taxes?
Definition
Taxes that stopped people from voting
Term
What are literacy tests?
Definition
you could vote if you could read something.
Term
What is the Grandfather clause?
Definition
You could vote if you Grandfather could vote
Term
What are the Jim Crow laws?
Definition
laws that segregated different aspects of southern society (legal separation of the races in the South)
Term
Where were Jim Crow laws? (4)
Definition
Mainly public areas like transportation, sidewalks, schools, movies, etc.
Term
How did the black people in Louisiana respond to the Jim Crow Laws?
Definition
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)
Term
What did the determine in Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)?
Definition
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.
Term
What did the court case Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) tell state legislatures?
Definition
SEGREGATION WAS LEGAL
Term
The separate facilities were almost never equal especially schools until 1954 with Brown vs. Board of education
Definition
FACT
Term
What is lynching?
Definition
A mob of whites to assert deadly justice on blacks
Term
What was lynching mostly about?
Definition
It tried to stop blacks from stepping out of line
Term
What were most cases of lynching on?
Definition
When a black person tried to take the purity of a whit woman (mostly sexual matters)
Term
What happens if a black store owner does better than a white?
Definition
he/she gets lynched
Term
About how many people were getting lynched every year?
Definition
187
Term
What are the White primacy jubilees?
Definition
What some blacks refereed to white lynchers as
Term
There was a big movement to the north for blacks, but the ones that stayed in the south had to be very careful.
Definition
Fact
Term
Who founded the Tuskegee Institute?
Definition
Booker T. Washington
Term
What did Booker T. Washington tell blacks to do?
Definition
Follow what the White people wanted and then they would gain respect.
Term
What are accomodationists?
Definition
When the blacks followed the white societies rules
Term
Who was the first African American to get their P.H.D. at Harvard?
Definition
W.E.B. du Bois
Term
What did W.E.B. du Bois tell blacks to do?
Definition
Try to pursue higher opportunities in life. He went against Booker T. Washington
Term
What did W.E.B. du Bois create?
Definition
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Term
Who were The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
Definition
A civil rights group
Term
What are the three key terms when it comes to Western Settlement?
Definition
Homestead Act (1863),
Reservation Policy,
and Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Term
What was one of the first, and major moves to the west?
Definition
The gold rush in California
Term
How would the people moving west get there before Rail Roads?
Definition
Boat
Term
Before Rail roads, there were 7 million people West. After railroads, how many were there?
Definition
17 million
Term
Who is bringing the West under its control?
Definition
The U.S.
Term
The west could not have developed without the railroads. How did the railroads get the land to go west?
Definition
The government provided land to them
Term
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?
Definition
It would be completely filled with people until there was no more left, and then the town would disperse
Term
In these mining towns, what was the ratio of women to men?
Definition
80 to 1
Term
What was a very famous store/ restaurant in the west?
Definition
Saloon
Term
What were the towns mainly around? Why?
Definition
Railroads, to get canned food and other needs
Term
Mining was just like a business. They complained about their hours and wages, what were formed?
Definition
strikes
Term
What is cattle ranching?
Definition
Basically farming animals
Term
What was a major animal used in cattle ranching? Why?
Definition
Texas Longhorns because the north needs food, and they have too many people to feed themselves, so beef becomes a major product
Term
what does open range mean?
Definition
The government doesn't own that land, so you are free to let your cattle graze it unless authorized other
Term
What invention sectioned off peoples land?
Definition
Barbed wire
Term
Ranching is a big business, and cowboys were waged laborers that also had restrictions
Definition
Fact
Term
Why did a lot of people move west?
Definition
To farm
Term
What did the Homestead Act say?
Definition
Once you farm on a piece of land for 5 years, you would get 160 acres.
Term
What land is not usable? (1) and why was the homestead act bad? (2)
Definition
Railroad land,
and sometimes you were no where near the railroad (2 days away), and sometimes the land is not fertile
Term
What kind of houses did people in the west live in?
Definition
Sod houses
Term
What are sod houses?
Definition
Where you would get chunks of the dirt from the ground and build a house with that.
Term
What is scarcity?
Definition
When basic human needs become hard to get.
Term
What are two examples of something being scarce in the West?
Definition
Wood and fuel
Term
Since the land that had water on it was more expensive, how did some farmers get water?
Definition
They had to make long trips to get it
Term
Many farmers need machinery. Farms in the west were struggling like farms in the south.
Definition
FACT
Term
What was a major crop in the west?
Definition
Wheat
Term
Which party were the western farmers drawn too?
Definition
The populist party
Term
Who did Americans compete against for resources?
Definition
Native Americans
Term
Compare and Contrast Native Americans and Euro-Americans with nature.
Definition
Native Americans- Harmony with Nature
Euro-American- Celebration to dominate natural elements
Term
Compare and Contrast Native Americans and Euro-Americans with property.
Definition
Native Americans- Property is shared as a community (Communal sense)
Euro-American- Individually owned
Term
Compare and Contrast Native Americans and Euro-Americans with production,.
Definition
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
Term
What did the Army do to get rid of all the Indians? When the army did this, which tribe surrendered?
Definition
Killed all of the buffalo, the Sioux Indians
Term
What are reservations?
Definition
The relocation of large Indian groups. (Forced to move somewhere else, and the government said they would help them, but they broke that promise
Term
What is Americanizing the Indians?
Definition
Trying to make them look and act like humans.
Term
What happened at Wounded Knee?
Definition
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
Term
Indians were completely transformed. Men would farm and the women would bake.
Definition
FACT
Term
What did the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 do?
Definition
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
Term
What would the government do to the land that was left over in the Indian reservations?
Definition
They would sell it
Term
What is oral history?
Definition
Where history is passed down verbally
Term
What was the name of the Indian who was always running from the American troops?
Definition
Geronimo
Term
What kind of man was Geronimo?
Definition
A medicine man (Blessed men)
Term
What happened to Geronimo's family?
Definition
All killed by the Spanish army right in front of his face
Term
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Definition
FACT
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