Terms and People Flashcards
(33 cards)
Docility
One-Michael Foucault’s (philosopher who theorized how power is use for social control) idea of how bodies can be used for a purpose and be trained to be made docile at all times without supervision
Two registrars:
anatomical-metaphysical-bodies manipulated through explanation and instruction
technical-political-bodies manipulated through function/use
Free-soilers
A political party that opposed extending slavery West and letting slave state join the union
agricultural model-own labor on own farm
White supremacy
1-belief that the white race is better/superior than other races
2-political ideology that maintains white dominance socially, economically, and politically
3-taken for granted mindset even with free Soilers and abolitionists
Patriarchy
Social system with male/father is the dominant authority figure and females are subordinates
Civilization
White, Western, middle-class lifestyle considered “civilized” lifestyle and civilization was where people who lived like this inhabited
Underground railroad
A network of safe houses and routes made and guided by free/slave blacks and those sympathetic to the cause to guide Slaves into free states
Miscegenation
Mixing of different races to interracial sex or marriage, also called amalgamation
White slavery
Pre-Civil War: to become a white slave in this era one had to be physically or socially accepted as a black, so abolitionist, poor Whites, mulattos with black mothers etc.
Jewish crime: when Jewish girls coming from Europe would be coerced by other Jews to join the slave trade and be a sex slave/prostitutes
Jewish crime
consider Jewish if not crimes against the body, for property or profit, and also a social function in Jewish communities
Bootlegging
Illegal business of buying/making/distributing etc. alcohol in the age of Prohibition, major industry
Racketeering
- Prohibition was the catalyst for racketeering for all the criminals of prohibition to go into another easy industry to make money after the 21st amendment
- it was levying and collecting tribute by violence intimidation-labor unions and small businesses depended on racketeers to protect businesses and make laborers work
Nativism
Because of rapid immigration in the early 1900s and the beginning of problems associated with increased influx of people, urbanization, and immigration, Americans blamed the problems on the immigrants which led to increased sense of nativism which is where the dominant culture/inhibiting people of the country interests are favored, associated with Xenophobia
Sacramental wine
There was a provision in the 18th amendment that let clergy/churches get and give wine for sacramental purposes which lead to corruption in the church/reputation of the church, along with many fake ministers and rabbis
Women’s suffrage
1-women granted suffrage in 1920 with the 19th amendment
2-Kansas seen as a progressive and democratic because it was the state that helped spearhead this movement
3-according to Oretel, historical pattern that black men get granted rights before women
Fundamentalism
Heartfelt expression of Jesus Christ and strict literal interpretation of the Bible
In 1910 - 1915 started distributing fundamentals pamphlets of Christianity
Fundamentalists thought religion was getting too secular and forced Christian denominations to choose between fundamentalists or Modernists “against education”
Conservatism
Political and social philosophy that wants to maintain traditional social order, Kansas after 1930s became known as a state and practiced this
- not necessarily related to Christianity
Urbanization
Growth of urban areas, especially with the new wave of immigration in 1900s
Industrialization
Trend at the start of the 20th century along with urbanization and mass immigration
- Promise of opportunity led to mass immigration (from Europe to US and from Rural US to urban US)
- Contributed to influx of immigration, rise of Jewish crime, and immigration act of 1924
Commerce clause
Clause in section 8 of article 1 of the Constitution that gives federal government control over communication, transportation, trade between states, with foreign nations, and with Native American tribes
Alcohol on the moral versus practical political issue
Prohibition enacted due to idea that it would lead to greater morality and efficiency
- Idea of morality and politics do to 1910-1915 publication of “the fundamentals” by a group of California Christians
- Prohibition repealed primarily for economic reasons (also due to less of a perceived relationship between morality and efficiency after Scopes trial)
Garment district
Major industry in Lower East side-by 1900, New York Jews controlled the New York clothing industry and most were employed in sweatshops, retail stores, etc.
-Easy target for Jewish crime, because of proximity and entanglement with Jewish culture (fencing, theft, burglary, and racketeering tied to garment industry)
Indian response to white acculturation
Missionary influence:
education-Indian children who attended did so inconsistently
conversion to Christianity
-Intermarriage
-Avoided white labor practices of sending men to work in fields and keeping women in homes
-Tribes who had more experience white society (i.e. Delaware, Shawnee) more likely to negotiate treaties, etc.
-Tribes with less experience (i.e. Sac, Fox) responded with resistance and sometimes violence
-Trade brought whites and Indians together and help for more pleasant relationship)
Abolitionists
White supremacy taken for granted-freeing the slaves did not make them equal
- Used idea of white supremacy to argue against slavery:
- Fear of miscegenation as threat to purity of white race (mixing of races due to rape of black female slaves)
- Slavery seen as threat to patriarchy (makes white men more feminine and black men more masculine)
- Slavery brings blacks and whites too close together (live in same house, work same fields, etc.)
Abraham Lincoln
White supremacy:
- At Beginning of term, believed blacks and whites would not be able to live together
- Just beginning to consider racial equality at end of presidency due to experiences during war (i.e. black soldiers) and faith
- main goal = to keep union together, not to say free slaves
- Lincoln right to sign first draft of 13th amendment, would have made slavery legal constitutionally
