DOC PREVIEW
URI HIS 142 - Exam 1 Study Guide

This preview shows page 1 out of 3 pages.

Save
View full document
View full document
Premium Document
Do you want full access? Go Premium and unlock all 3 pages.
Access to all documents
Download any document
Ad free experience
Premium Document
Do you want full access? Go Premium and unlock all 3 pages.
Access to all documents
Download any document
Ad free experience

Unformatted text preview:

HIS 142 1st EditionExam # 1 Study Guide Lectures: 1 - 3Lecture 1 (February 4th)Describe Industrialization. How did people feel about industrialization? What were the factors of industrialization? What were the impacts of industrialization? Industrialization was a period of time where the society was becoming less dependent on farming jobs and more dependent on non-farming jobs. Many large factories were being built that offered an abundant amount of jobs for the people. Tension occurred because of the new lack of dependence on farmers and artisans. Some people hated the new world created by industrialization while others loved it, but all groups were putting out ideas on how to help shape industrialization.Factors of industrialization included new markets, cheap and abundant labor, availability of natural resources, technological breakthroughs (for example, railroads and telegraph) and government subsidies and support.Impacts of industrialization included class divisions, working conditions and labor conflict, volatile economy, consolidation and coroporization, political corruption, immigration, environmental degradation, subjection of Native Americans and shifting ideas about government and economic freedom. What was happening to the Native Americans during industrialization? The farmers? What was the Farmers Alliance? What was the Populist Party?Native Americans were being forced off of their land so that it could be used to build new factories. Although the Native Americans were trying to exist, there were a lot of massacres. Farmers were going into debt, losing their land, and moving into cities to find other jobs. The Farmer’s Alliance was when farmers pooled their crops together to bring into the markets to try and get better prices. They didn’t have the economic power to do this, so they looked toward politics.The Populist Party tried to address concerns that farmers had. They developed a platform in Omaha that talk about the farmer’s issues, attitudes, etc.Lecture 2 (January 11th)Who was Andrew Carnegie? What was the Pullman Strike? What is a “progressive”?Andrew Carnegie was someone who wanted things to be done his way. He wanted to get rid of the worker’s labor union so he locked the workers out of the factories instead of raising wages, creating better working environments, etc. which is what the worker’s asked for (this was known as the Homestead Strike). Carnegie gave big donations to places like libraries and wantedto present himself as a philanthropist, but wouldn’t pay his workers higher wages and treat them better.The Pullman Strike was when the workers were not pleased with the conditions so they went onstrike and an induction occurred (injunction means that if workers went on strike a judge could stop it because strikes were now considered illegal). Workers held up the railroad system and were arrested.A “progressive” is someone who believed the new world created left things that needed to be corrected. They were ok with industrialization but they wanted to reform rather than have a revolution. They wanted things to be safer and more consistent with American ideals such as freedom. They wanted to get rid of things such as prostitution, crimes and drugs and clean up the streets and cities.Lecture 3 (January 18th)What were the Jim Crow Laws? Describe what voting was like in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. What was the Share Crop System? What was the Convict Lease System? What were whites doing to reinforce their dominance?The Jim Crow Laws were segregation laws. The wanted to limit opportunity to blacks and promote white supremacy. The country thought blacks shouldn’t be entitled to the same rights as whites and believed there needed to be laws to enforce that.In order to vote in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, you had to pass a literacy test – reading a passage and reciting it or explain what it was about. There were also polling taxes that had to be paid. It was believed that giving literacy tests and having poll taxes would keep the blacks from voting.The Share Crop System was when blacks could rent small plots of land from landowners. At the end of each year, the blacks that had rented the land had to give the landowner a portion of their crops. Eventually, the crops at the end of each year were not enough to pay off the debt that the blacks had to the landowners. The Share Crop System basically, in a way, created slavery. The Convict Lease System was when someone owned a big farm and made an agreement with aprison that you would hire prisoners to work at your farm. Officers would arrest blacks (asyoung as 8) for very minor charges so that they would be forced to work. The blacks did not get paid for their work, but the prison did. (Slavery by another name.) In order to reinforce their dominance, whites were torturing the blacks – beating them up, taking pictures of dead blacks, and burning them alive. Blacks were to refer to whites as “sir” and “ma’am”. There were also separate facilities for blacks to


View Full Document

URI HIS 142 - Exam 1 Study Guide

Download Exam 1 Study Guide
Our administrator received your request to download this document. We will send you the file to your email shortly.
Loading Unlocking...
Login

Join to view Exam 1 Study Guide and access 3M+ class-specific study document.

or
We will never post anything without your permission.
Don't have an account?
Sign Up

Join to view Exam 1 Study Guide 2 2 and access 3M+ class-specific study document.

or

By creating an account you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms Of Use

Already a member?