Society Flashcards
(28 cards)
Columbian exchange
tomato, corn, potato, beans
wheat, horse, cow, disease
Virginia: “Headlight” policy
indentured servant: 7 years
bring someone from Ireland or england passage paid for Virginian. worked for him for 7 years afterwards they were free and the virginian got 50 acres land
Revolution: Tories vs Whigs
Tories were those for the king Whigs " " against the king not everyone for the revolution Slaves - if you fought for england you would be able to be free afterwards (civil war)
postwar:
80-90% in agriculture average woman gave birth 8 times 1/2 of americans under 16 20% of population black Jefferson assumed we would continue to be an agriculture country John Brown -22kids in south - mostly blacks
1776 Kentucky population 150
1792 Kentucky population 75,000
(Daniel Boone Wilderness road)
Daniel Boone - has friends with axes widened the road
helped population grow
1828 NY: 1% of population has 40% of wealth
4% of population 76% of wealth
age of Jackson
Age of Jackson
Bareknuckle boxing (record: 119 rounds) theatre for rich and poor was different
1840
literacy:
91% of whites
33% of black
Debating societies
library everywhere
1847 Hoe Rotary Press
“Penny dailies” (newspapers)
20,000 sheets an hour
Utopian communities
100+ 1800-1900
Tomas moore
island is Erehwon
socialism
Shakes (Mother Ann)
Quakers sex-babies unlike Shakes ALL SEX IS WRONG made furniture
Oneida (“complex marriage”)
opposite of shakes
both man and women had multiple marriages
made silverware
Civil War (1861 - 65)
south: solider vs solider
NOOOO- taxes -> everyone vs everyone
Sherman’s March to the Sea
burning everything killing animals
northern soldiers - in order to make sure this would never happen again
Reconstruction
Jim Crow Laws
Exodusters - former southern blacks that went to kansas to work in a factory without Jim Crow
South pissed off that North did shit
Late 19th immigration
eastern + Southern Europe
before that it was northern europe
revolutions started happening
worked awful conditions to survive
1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Co. Fire
New York City burned, killing 145 workers. It is remembered as one of the most infamous incidents in American industrial history, as the deaths were largely preventable–most of the victims died as a result of neglected safety features and locked doors within the factory building. The tragedy brought widespread attention to the dangerous sweatshop conditions of factories, and led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of workers
owned by Max Blanck and Isaac Harris, was located in the top three floors of the Asch Building, on the corner of Greene Street and Washington Place, in Manhattan. It was a true sweatshop, employing young immigrant women who worked in a cramped space at lines of sewing machines. Nearly all the workers were teenaged girls who did not speak English, working 12 hours a day, every day. there were four elevators with access to the factory floors, but only one was fully operational and the workers had to file down a long, narrow corridor in order to reach it. There were two stairways down to the street, but one was locked from the outside to prevent stealing and the other only opened inward. The fire escape was so narrow that it would have taken hours for all the workers to use it, even in the best of circumstances.
roosevelt was president no longer though
1918 - 19 Spanish Flu
1914 WWI
we joined in last 6months \
ended 1918
the flu begin cause of such shitty conditions
world wide
fifth of the world’s population was infected
Roaring 20s
flappers
enjoy life before Hilter comes
1930s (Depression) Hoovervilles
hoover blamed for depression
Postwar Jackie Robinson
Major league baseball
1947
rookie of the year for dodgers
Nergo leagues disbanded
Levittown (New York suburb)
of the first suburbs
Dr. Spack’s Baby Book
manual on infant and child care first published in 1946.
blamed when those children grew up and protested against Vietnam war
1950s McCarthyism
Joseph Mccarthy a senator
practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence. It also means “the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism.”
communist
