Roaring 20's (WiP) Flashcards

Question

what was the United Negro Improvement Association and who founded it

Answer 1

founded by marcus garvey to promote the resettlement of blacks in Africa. In the United States, the UNIA also sponsored stores and other businesses to keep blacks' dollars in black pockets.

Answer 2

In 1879, Susette La Flesche, a young Omaha woman, traveled east to translate into English the sad words of Chief Standing Bear, whose Ponca people had been forcibly removed from their home-land in Nebraska. Later, she was invited with Chief Standing Bear to go on a lecture tour to draw attention to the Ponca's situation.

Answer 3

the dawes act

Answer 4

La Flesche testified before congressional committees and helped win passage of the Dawes Act of 1887, which allowed individual Native Americans to claim reservation land and citizenship rights.

Answer 5

her activism was an example of a new role for American women, who were expanding their participation in public life.

Answer 6

Before the Civil War, married middle-class women were generally expected to devote their time to the care of their homes and families.

Answer 7

lower class women didn't have the luxury of staying home to tend to their families and the house, they needed to work to support the familys income

Answer 8

On farms in the South and the Midwest, women's roles had not changed substantially since the previous century. In addition to household tasks such as cooking, making clothes, and laundering, farm women handled a host of Other chores such as raising livestock. Often the women had to help plow and plant the fields and harvest the crops.

Answer 9

As better-paying opportunities became available in towns, and especially cities, women had new options for finding jobs, even though men's labor unions excluded them from membership.

Answer 10

one out of five american women held jobs, 25 percent of them worked in manufacturing

Answer 11

the garment trade claimed about half of all women industrial workers. They typically held the least skilled posi-tions, however, and received only about half as much money as their male counterparts or less. Many of these women were single and were assumed to be supporting only themselves, while men were assumed to be supporting families.

Answer 12

offices, stores, classrooms by 1890, women high school graduates outnumbered men.

Answer 13

book-keepers and stenographers, as well as training female typists to operate the new machines

Answer 14

Many women without formal education or industrial skills contributed to the economic survival of their families by doing domestic work, such as cleaning for other families.

Answer 15

after almost 2 million African-American women were freed from slavery, poverty quickly drove nearly half of them into the work force.

Answer 16

They worked on farms and as domestic workers, and migrated by the thousands to big cities for jobs as cooks, laundresses, scrub-women, and maids. Altogether, roughly 70 percent of women employed in 1870 were servants.

Answer 17

Unmarried immigrant women also did domestic labor, especially when they first arrived in the United States. Many married immigrant women contributed to the family income by taking in piecework or caring for boarders at home.

Answer 18

Dangerous conditions, low wages, and long hours led many female industrial workers to push for reforms.

Answer 19

there was a fire in 1911 and 146 mostly female workers perished

Answer 20

womens clubs were where women discussed art and literature and sometimes grew into reform groups that addressed issues such as temperance or child labor.

Answer 21

they all had graduated from college

Answer 22

vassar, smith, and wellesley colleges

Answer 23

harvard, brown, columbia

Answer 24

marriage was not the only option and many women got jobs or sought higher education, some never even getting married

Answer 25

p. 3/4 women and reform

Answer 26

legit no clue where you were

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