American context Flashcards
(26 cards)
Industrialist
Andrew Carnegie
One of the richest men in history
How much did Carnegie donate
350 million to charities
Carnegie article
1889- ‘the gospel of wealth’ called on the rich to use wealth to improve society
‘No idol more debasing than the worship of money’
‘Wounded knee’
1891
Hundreds of women and children killed
Black elk quote (wounded knee)
‘ people’s dream died there’
‘You see me now a pitiful old man who has done nothing, for the nations hoop is broken and scattered. There is no centre any longer and the sacred tree is dead’
Spanish American war date
1889- triumphant victory
One sided- Spain little time to prepare
Spanish war reasons
Cuban independence- depicted in America through yellow journalism
The rosewood massacre date
1923
Rosewood civil war
Jim Crow laws after the civil war created segregation.
Rosewood causes
Fanny Taylor found screaming, bruised claiming black man assaulted her.
Rosewood events
Husband gathered mob and 500 kkk who blamed Jesse hunter.
The mob were dragging men by cars, beating them, torturing
Houses and churches burnt
Forced man to dig own grave
Rosewood after
25 people hiding
Newspapers said armed black groups were on rampage (false)
Rosewood trial
All white witnesses, no prosecution
Jim Crow laws
13th amendment freed 4 million slaves in 1865
These laws delighted how they would live
Activist against Jim crow
Ida b wells
Refunded to leave white train car
1889- wrote about school segregation and sexual assault
Mob destroyed her newspaper and threatened her with death
First black school
Charlotte Hawkins brown
1901- North Carolina first black school
Promoted segregation
Isaiah montgomy
Ex slave created ‘mound bayou’ all black town.
Race riots
Rise in lynching and race riots
23 in 1919
Triangle shirt wash factory fire
1911 killed 145
Mostly young immigrant women working 12 hours
Why fire?
Neglected safety
Doors locked
Elevator only held 12, many jumped down shaft to their death or out of windows
Fire aftermath
Better laws on worker conditions
Only paid 15 dollars a week
Went on strike and were imprisoned
Weren’t convicted of manslaughter
Social Darwinism
Justify racism
Laissez faire
Herbert Spencer linked SD to capitalism and thought qualities were genetic
Saw the poor as inherently weak and unfit
Eugenics
Adopted by hitler
Rid society of undesirables
