Social And Economic 1865-1890 Flashcards
(53 cards)
What is mass immigration otherwise know as
The melting pot
Between 1860 and 1890, how many immigrants came to us and where from
10 million
Germans swedes Irish and Scots
What were the two factors for people to come to us
Pull to America
Push away from their homeland
What was a pull factor to America (4)
Statue of Liberty , idea of land of the free
Shipping companies encouraging immigration?
Urbanisation
Chinese recruited in to make railroads
What were made in large cities as a result of immigration
Districts such as China town
Nativism grew… what was it
A belief that people who parents born in US wanted to protect US from alien ways
What was the difference between new and old immigrants
Tension regarding housing and jobs
How was there a growth in aint Chinese feeling?
The yellow peril , media against the Chinese regarding the workers.
Brought in Chinese exclusion act
What was passed and when to limit Chinese immigrants
1882 - Chinese exclusion act which stopped them gaining citizen ship
What was the Grainger movement
Aim of bringing farmers together to promote agriculture and the community
What was the knights of labour
A nation wide trade union formed in 1869
By mid 1880s had over 100,000 members
What were social divisions in the 1865-1890 time period
Farmers and workers through Grainger Movement and K of labour
Female suffrage
Temperance movement (anti-alcohol)
What was established and when regarding women’s suffrage
1890
Americans women’s suffrage association
How was there a north vs east division
Industrialisation vs urbanisation
Great railroad strike 1877
How did the population differ in New York 1860-1890
Doubled
What was the new south
Dominated by divisions of African Americans and whites
AA uncertain to push for more change
New south same as old south ( 11 confed states felt alienated)
Still racial grudges against AA
What was the Wild West?
Rapid settlement due to government and ordinary people.
Treaties made between whites and native Americans
Railroads dominated
Land was scarred by war
How was their divisions between the native Americans and the white settlers
Whites destroyed Indian way of life
Native Americans confined to reservations
Poor white farmers felt pushed out from growing population of west
Reliant upon railroads for supplies
Granger movement a positive
How was life in the 1865-90 period for African Americans
Negatives
After comprise AA start to lose their legal rights, before was hope
Many became sharecroppers
Black codes segregated them
Grandfather clause lost right to vote
Lynchings common
What were the positives for AA during 1865-90 time period?
Many moved away from south and changed their surname
Got married
Set up churches and founded schools
3 AA university’s made
Who was booker T Washington
Headed the Tuskagee institute in Alabama in 1881-1915
Trained AA teachers but was a moderate and accommodated white supremacy.
What % of the population was rural 1865-90
Over 1/2
He did the farm population increase in 1865-90
From 10m to 25m
What was the homestead act 1862
Made thousands of acres of land available as free land to settle
