Chapter 23-Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age
Chapter 23
Waving the Bloody Shirt
Who -Radical Republicans
What- used the tragic Civil War to gain Support for their causes and political campaigns
When- post-civil war elections 1868, 1872, 1876
Where- north
Why- gain the support of veterans
Guilded age
Who -
- George Westinghouse (invents air brakes for safer travel)
- former slaves( overworked and underpaid as Pullman porters)
- Rober Barons( overpowered railroad tycoons)
- Muckrakers(reporters who exposed corruption)
- Mark Twain (coined the term)
What-
- a period of rapid economic growth
- wealthy tycoons held more political power than actual politicians
- slums sprung up as people flock to cities
- there was a huge wealth gap
- unsafe working conditions
- Looks great on the outside inside rotten
- Lots of immigration
When- 1870-1900
Why - greediness and rapid growth
How - new inventions transcontinental railroad is finished,
Compromise of 1877
Who - southern democrats northern republicans
What- informal agreement to settle the presidency of Rutherford B. Hays and end reconstruction
When- 1877
Why- election tied
How - Hayes would become president and reconstruction would end
Jim crow and Black Codes
What- racial cast system/ laws segregation cant serve on a jury cant vote (literacy tests )
Example by Ferris University
- “Never assert or even intimate that a white person is lying.
- Never impute dishonorable intentions to a white person.
- Never suggest that a white person is from an inferior class.
- Never lay claim to or overly demonstrate superior knowledge or intelligence.
- Never curse a white person.
- Never laugh derisively at a white person.
- Never comment upon the appearance of a white female.” Ferris university
When- 1877-198
Where- Mainly the south (north still racist)
Why- Reconstruction failed to change basic white attitudes
How- series of laws segregating life
Reconstruction Aftermath
Who- Blacks and Democratic southerners
What-jim crow laws, labor shortage, unemployment( for blacks) forced sharecropping, eviction \n Where- south
\ Homestead Strikes and Pinkertons
Who-
Pinkerton detective agency(hired to break the strike),
Andrew Carnage + Henry Clay Flick( management of Carnage Steel)
Amalga Asociation of Iron and steel workers (union)
What- labor strike that turned violent and deadly (guns)
When -1892
Where- Carnage Steel Company
Why-wage cuts
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