Final Ch. 17

How did racial segregation in the labor market affect af-am women?

A high percentage of black women worked for wages in domestic services

The ascendancy of the American federation of labor during the 1890s reflected

A shift from broad reform goals to not limited goals

Why did Americans celebrate the Spanish American war

Americans experienced the war as an occasion for national reconciliation between north and south

Why did the south fail to attract significant economic development in the wake of reconstruction?

Investors came to the south for cheap labor and low taxes so they mad few capital investments in the region

Native born middle class women under the leadership of Carrie chapman Catt argued that they deserved the right to vote on account

Of their status as an educated and superior race

Had the teller amendment been applied to the Philippines and Cuba, how would it have changed the Spanish American war?

The US would have been barred from annexing the archipelago

Which promted some urban observers to misjudge populists as a backward looking movement?

Their belief in a commonwealth of small producers and the dignity of labor

How did populists hope to guarantee farmers inexpensive access to markets of their crops?

They called for public ownership of railroads

How did black women challenge the racial ideology of the Jim Crow south

They insisted for equal respect by "racial uplift"

Apart from racial identity of victims, what typically triggered the lynch violence of southern white mobs

Victims alleged sexual conduct