rich -> poor 

freed slaves (slaves = money)

still married to cotton even though world demand dropped

-equal protection of laws

-cannot abridge rights

-gives all equal rights instead of the previous: 

"congress shall make no law

How was the guilded age a human 

Revolution?

americans only knew rural settings, switched 

in 2 generations to alot urban

associated with rise of power and modern american big business

urbanization

industrialization

immigration

-from Europe

-to the west

-to cities

way to make good steel faster/cheaper

-made skyscrapers, subways, etc possible

workers wanted better cond./more money

ends reconstruction

violent -lots of fires

geographical spread across AM.

Bank Collapses- 

panics occured every 20 yrs.

price crops dec. -> productivity inc.

-individually smart, collectively stupid

renter

pays part of crop as rent

wage employee

paid in crop

-crush all resistence by 1880

"pyrrhic victory" -victory gained through a lot of loss

"kill the indian, save the man"

-put indians on farms to humanize them

aka destroy their culture and replace it with ours

Ghost Dance

and consequnces

indian dance for redemption of sin

-leads to massacre at wounded knee, bc

thinks indian fired gun at white man

machines for harvesting

-strike of skilled workers

Gompers 

(impressive mustache)

AFL -american federation of labor

skilled workers in union

1866- federation of many unions

walk out and boycott

first mass union

takes non skilled workers, women, blacks, etc.

successful

guilt by association

blames knights for bombing thing

farmers out west

-problems 

end up in land with little rain and no idea how to farm. youre screwed

crops cost more to ship then price bought at

Omaha Platform

3 issues

-public finance

-anti monopoly

-political reform

govt owned RR's & telegraph

8 hr day

secret ballot: initiative & referendum 

direct election of senators

standard agreed on.

decided should be conection b/n gold & dollar

-"gold drain"

-caused by Sherman Silver Purchase Act

belived by cleveland and congress -> repeal act

doesnt help gold bleed and americans think cleveland is helping banks

Jane Addams

poster girl for progressives

invented social work

Hull house-community

EAT FRESH VEGGIES!!!!!!!!!

child labor, meat etc

frontier is gone

one thing we have in common/makes us diiferent

explains AM history slash socitety.

satisfied home market-> overseas trade market

Republicsn ->Bull Moose Party

progressive

dissatisfied with Taft

16: income tax

17: direct election of senators (populist idea of 1892)

18: prohibition

19: womens sufferage

nationalizing RR and telphone

-graduated income tax

-free unlimited coinage of silver and gold

direct elect of senators

legal segregation

-literacy tests

grandfather clause

blacks angry bc cant vote

govt said segregation not racist. 

based on states

Williams v. Mississippi

(WMS v MS)

MS put poll tax & literacy test

-ruled constitutional bc applied to everyone even though discriminted against blacks

Booker T Washington

-truse w/ jim crow and lynching

Web DuBois 

of the custo/habit/ practice

harder to change

north

of the law

process for changing

south

blacks vote w feet

move to north bc no opportunity in south

-> empire

leading edeg of civilization , responsibility to spread civilization

true power=sea power

create massive am navy

-the great white fleet

sent by spanish to reapture cuba for spain 

-put non rebels in concentration camps to "keep safe"

250 am explodes

design flaw- blame on spanish

declaration of war on spain

attached to decl. of war

-us not in war to gain territory

written into Cuban Constiitution

limits cuban treaty power & debt

garantees Us rights to intervene

got claims to Guatanamo Bay-naval base

settled AM/SP war

informal rulers of cuba without harming Monroe

filipines foothold in asian trade

Cuba and philipines

phili- no like being ours. fight for 3 yrs

Gunboat diplomacy

dollar

mission

TR

liberal use of military 

can cause probs down the line- make enemies

Taft

business first 

-investment of of resourses in underdeveloped 

Wilson

self government-> leads to better life

TR corollary 

extension of Monroe Doc. 

AM= cops of west hemisphere

states seek own power and interest

external >internal- states behAVE  same way

order/stability can only come as result of balance of power

states have common/shared goals

internal>external-consensual states->peace and prosperity

order/stability can only be torn in community of power

WWI causes

alliance system

ARch Duke Franz Ferdinand-assassinated

"Thank God for Atlantic ocean" 

nuetraity/ be part of peace

Lusitania

sunk by German U boat

germany apologizes and promise not to kill any more

german unrestricted sub warfare

zimmerman telegram

1 open diplomacy

2 free seas

3 free trade

4 disarmament

5 self determination of ppls

14 League of Nations- work out other points peacefully

wilson takes back flawed(compromised) treaty of versailles

AM wants to change ART 10-> bc kills monroe doc

League fails 1st at versailles, 2 at senate

league open without AM

centralized

cant do anything against AM

rampage commies in unions

FIND THE COMMIES!!

turn back clock to 1910 

% ethnicity in 1910 = % allowed to migrate to US

face of prohibition- barroom smasher 

US voted dry

against everyhting not white protestant AM 

solve through Activism 

protect 

Black culture in New York 

art lit music culture

MArcus Garvey 

Taylorism