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Two groups to be apart of Radical Republicans new coalition;
Republicans & Democrats
What was the Chinese exclusion act and why it passed?
Suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years because they wanted the population of Chinese to decline and "the good order of certain localities"
Who was known as the wizard of Menlo Park and why?
Thomas Edison because he moved a group of workers to that park and set up a "invention factory" purposely mimicking the world of manufacturing
What was the southern practice called "wages of whiteness"
To attract white workers, mill owners promised them segregated environments. Mill workers may not make much but would gain "wages of whiteness" a sense of racial superiority that could serve as compensation for their low economic status.
Who developed the first mail-order business and when?
A Montgomery Ward and 1872-1884
Who was Ida B Wells And what was her campaign of reform?
African American journalist: anti lynching campaign involving an economic boycott as well as a series of fiery editorials in her newspaper
What happened at the Colfax Massacre in Louisiana of April 18, 1873?
Clash between black militia and armed whites. 1/2 blacks were killed after they surrendered. *****
What has been called the "most successful in fair history" and what was "white city"
Columbia exposition of 1893- world fair to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America- monumental set of gleaming building meant to evoke the classical grandeur of Greece and Rome and to trumpet the maturation of American civilization
What is hydraulic mining and what were its consequences?
Employed high pressure jets of water to wash away banks of earth to extract gold.. bad because ravaged the environment and clogged rivers and floods
What was the Pendleton act passed in 1883?
Established the modern structure of the civil service (sep. the bureaucracy from politics by requiring competitive examinations for the appointment of civil servants)
What agricultural reforms replaced open range grazing and why?
Farmers who survived started growing hay and supplemental food, reduced the size of their herds and started buying or leasing land because the high demand of rounding up herds to sell
What completed event took place at Promontory Summit, Utah territory of May 10, 1869?
First transcontinental railroad linking Union Pacific and central pacific then The panic of 1873 happened when the northern pacific precipitated and plunged the economy into 5 year depression
How did birth of a nation have a negative impact on portraying history and race relations?
Had negative impact on portraying history and race relations.. 1) perpetuated vicious stereotypes of rapacious black men 2) glorified the Ku Klux Klan- the 2nd one came about 3) portrayed predatory carpetbaggers and brutish blacks plundering a prostate South and going after white ladies.
Other characteristics that got U.S. Grant into presidency
He commanded greater authority and prestige than anyone else
What was President Johnson's purpose in slowing down & blocking Republican Reconstruction
He was dedicated to white supremacy
Why is the label of a failed president only partly correct in reference to the Grant presidency?
His inexperience and poor judgement betrayed him into several appointments of officials.. 1) secretary of war was impeached for selling appointments to army posts and Indian reservations 2) his attorney general and secretary of interior resigned to die of suspicion of malfeasance
What was Edward H. Clarke's views about women and what impact would this have?
Intellectual work damaged women's reproductive organs -> the cam stock law 1872- made it illegal to send reproductive literature or devices through the mails on grounds that were "obscene", eroding women's already-limited control of reproduction