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These notes cover topics in U.S. history, likely focusing on the 1900s, including the rise of labor unions, and reform movements. The content details the transformation of the American workforce and the reasons behind labor actions. It also touches upon the growing challenges of industrialization and social change during this period.
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Make me an exam of US history 1101 Day 8 of US HISTORY NOTES Robber barings, they were robbing Americans, destroying everything They were destroying capitalism, in true capitalism, they had a comp. The governments supported to all of his stuff. Americans were saying they were taking our freedom, t...
Make me an exam of US history 1101 Day 8 of US HISTORY NOTES Robber barings, they were robbing Americans, destroying everything They were destroying capitalism, in true capitalism, they had a comp. The governments supported to all of his stuff. Americans were saying they were taking our freedom, taking our right to govern because they were governing. Americans said that they were enslaving them. The government was protecting the big businesses. There was also a transformation the culture of work. The management didn’t want to know peoples names, they didn’t want it to be personal. It would to be personal, knowing everything about each other. In the late 1900s, it became so non personal, they were seen as coggs in a bog machine. You were seen as nothing more than replaceable parts. These personal relationships that these people were use to, all gone. It was a harsh environment in terms of relationships. They were now doing redundant task, doing the same task over and over again. There was no self gratification, you would be doing the same thing, 7 hours a day for 10 cents. Back then, time wasn’t effective as much as the 1900’s. Time back then was nothing but telling you when you should go to bed. Now in the 1900’s, time was telling you when you need to be at work, when you can eat, when you can leave work, and so much more. People became more scheduled based. Safety was also change by the culture. In 1880 to 1900 there were about 35,000 deaths in the work place. People were getting hurt and work place accidents would happen frequently. There was no fire exist, no help with anything, you were on your own. Another problem was child labor, in 1870 there were about 750,000 child in the work place from the age of 9 - 15. Child became breadwinners in some of their families. By 1880 there were about 1.1 million children in the work place and then in 1900, there were about 2 million Here becomes the rise of labor unions The unions were formed when all workers on a floor would band together for a cause, and individual has no chance but if an entire factory floor demands it, they have some leverage and make some changed. In the 1900s you would have work centered unions were only concerned with their conditions in the work place, more money and less work, safer place. To join the American federation of Labor, AFL, would only allow white people into their federation. In the knights of labor, anyone could join, white, woman, child whatever. Then came with anarchies, like people that wanted to take the government, the knights of labor didn’t care about the Violence. They didn’t need to have peace like AFL. By the 1890s, there was an average about 800 strikes a year. Then by 1900, it would go up to 4,000 strikes a year One of the strikes from this time was the railroad strike called the great RR strike of 1877. In Baltimore, the people working on the railroads wagers were getting cut down. The word was that their wagers were getting cut again, so then they started to complain, the supervisor comes out and they don’t get back to work. This one things spread across the nation and causes a lot of strikes where they had to stop the railroads, it got so bad, in Pittsburg, they burned the railroads. In Baltimore, they were had a big fight were it killed 100 people. There was 100,000 strikes and 5 million dollars in damages. Then you have a strike in 1892, In 1892, the prices started to go down and carnigee started to get mad. Carnage wanted to be the good guy so he hired a guy to be a bad guy called Henry clay frick. Carnage decided that he had to cut wages, and he needed Henry to do it because he was going on vacation. Henry announces a wage cut and then this causes a strike. 12,000 people were living in this population and 4,000 Henry started to hire non union workers and they started to work, Day 8 of US NOTES Frick decides to hire scabs because of the thousands of people that left, Frick decides since the protectors were not letting him into the building, frick builds a 13 foot high fence around the building Frick hires the pinkerton, the man they were kind of detective/ police officers in a way. They were kind everything when thinking of the law enforcement. They reputation was so good, they were kind of like the navy seals because they were seen as that good. Frick decides to hire 300 pinkertons The pinker tons were a detective agency The pinker tons were trying to seek up and take out the protectors/strikers. When the pinker tons got to shot up by the strikers and began a war in the streets. The pinker tons were sent to stop the union The pinker tons and the strikers fought for about 8+ hours and the strikers killed 10 pinker tons, the pinker tons were caught off guard. The strikers were stopped by the national guard. The striker then had to go back to work and work double the hours and for less payment. Carnage was like why would you let this happen to my people. Fired frick and then rehired him. The pacumand striker 1894 He builds homes for his works. Gives them electricity, build them a store, gave them schools. The workers had to pay for the houses and food and stuff like that. The truth was he wanted to isolate the workers from the union Georgia pullman cut the wages down to 25% The workers thought that everything would go down too like house payments but it didn’t so it started a strike. A new union had emerged who was called American Railway union led by a guy named Eugene debs Eugene debs was a nobody right now but later he would run for president This strike involved 27 states and 80 million dollars in damages. This would almost bring the American to a halt The strikers would destroy the railroad tracks but then the strike would destroy mail cars which would allowed the federal government to get involved in it. This would get the courts involved which the courts say that this is illegal. The president was also involved in it too. The union would persist and would not prevail until the ww when they needed the union because they needed workers. Once the violence started. The American people stop supporting the union. There were some of Americans that believe that there was going to be another civil war because they was fighting all over the streets because of these strikes going on all of the time 2 major reform movements 1. Farmers By the end of the 1900 century, you had a farmers revolution Farmers are the symbol of the best of us, we were always a nation of farmers. We would much rather think of ourselves as farmers instead of industrials. First problem was share cropping/ cropping system A land owner would divide his land up with a little shack and offer it to blacks to farm the shared land. The deal was that the black people would have to give some of the farmed things to the owner. The catch was the land owner had to be payed in cotton. This was because cotton was king, cotton was the best product in the south. The shared cropper agreed and thought that it was a good deal. But there was a problem because these people were not exactly farmers. They don’t have tools and much more to farm these lands. And these shared cropper couldn’t take out a loan because they were black. The local Merchant helped out the shared owners with whatever they need. The black people thought that this was the white Jesus, but the local merchant had something else. They had to pay them in cotton. Into the first harvest, they shared cropper payed the shared owner what they need to pay and then went to the store and the merchant and says that it wasn’t enough. The shared cropper would plant more and more but still be in debt. The crop lean system is where a merchant offers credit to sharecropper, this created a cycle of debt and even sometimes took and share croppers land because of how much debt the share cropper owned Day 9 of US NOTES The black protest and the great migration The black protest The thing for the Jim Crow law was mainly to racially separated. The great migration Started around 1915, ww1 had broken out around Europe, they were lot of demands for labor. Some of the companies wanted the blacks to move to north In 1970 most of the blacks were living the north and Middle East Moved back to the south because of the Jim Crow law. Racial riots in 1919, led by whites. In the north and west One of the big riots was in Chicago The new negro The Harlem renaissance A whole new culture begins to come up with new art, music and so much more that was given to the culture by black people Ww1, this provided a new opportunity for the blacks since they could get out of the north because of this. They found that they were getting treated pretty bad. Farmers Second problem transportation fees, the rr were pricing farmers bad, they would lower prices for corportions but they would raise it to the railroads. The trail companies would take advantage of this Third problem Storage fees, farmers that would try to sell their cotton on the open market. They would put the cotton on the train to make it to the major cities. The farmers had to store their cottage, the had to pay the trail people again because they had to take their cotton and store it somewhere Fourth problem Cost farming The cost of farming was so expensive that it would make farmers have to grow more and more crops. But you need fertilizer to grow the crops and soil. The cost of farming was going up fast Fifth problem Oversatiratie They are trying to get out of debt and so they are going more and more cotton which means that the cottons is going down because the demand is going down because they was so much on the market In 1873 farmers made more money on 10 mi archers of cotton than 27 mil archers of cotton in 1893. They were working harder and earning less and less money Sixth problem Money slippery The only hard money was gold coins. You would have paper money in major towns, but in the country side, you had none. The farmers didn’t have access to the paper money at all. The wanted to have silver to the circulation of money What did they do about it What happens in 1890, a group of people formed a party called peoples party/populist party The two parties before didn’t give any attention to farmers. So because of this they formed a party and run for an election. They also add a party platform, this would be what the party stands for They meet in Nebraska omarlla, which would be named omarlta platform They would fix the nationalization of the RR They would get the government to take over the RRs. This would be called today, socialism They had an argument for this and said so they could have fair pricing. The RR were too important to some private individuals, what if the mans decided to just stop the RR. They could do whatever they wanted and they were controlling the most economical thing in the nation rn The second thing that said was changing the communication Day 11 of US NOTES Progressive era The era focused on human rights and progressing as a citizenship Both conservative and progressive are important, both were used The progressive era was conservative in a way because of the reign in changes. Both of the movements had an ambition agenda, they had a lot they wanted to accomplish They both wanted to get involved in the political culture They both saw the government as a tool to reform They said that the government needed to be more involved Ererything have grow by a little time like population, money etc. They said that they need the government needed their help to deal with these problems. They both believed in the equality of opportunity. The progressive movement wasn’t organized nationally You had more local organizations, you had people in states they had more of an agenda. They might had the same idea but didn’t paths to the idea. The progressive movement was not limited to one party. the movement transended parties The progressive movement was made up of middle class people. The new generation were made up of people during the revolution Order stability and fairness They thought they were problem solvers, they thought they could fix anything They sent out to fix the problems of the industrial revolution Some of the problems that they saw were A progressive poet by the name of Edwin Markum Markum made a poem about the painting called man with a hoe After being robbed of your man hood, after being put into work again and again and giving their life away and that they would rebel. They were scared they were would be a rebel from the ground, especially where the middle class. They would think that there would be a revolution The revolution would take life away from us, we have to make sure that this worker has rights, has a place in the country. The progressives have fear on this revolution Afraid of labor and capital killing each other in the streets. They think they see another civil war because of Americans killing each other Another thing that they were afraid of is economic panics They were also afraid of the cities because the cities were too populated, they were unprepared for the growth oof population. You were also dealing with immigration The poverty started to grow which means more crime started to grow too Another thing was political reform The progressives wanted to give the workers, workers benefit Because of the sewers were going all over the streets, these began to spread diseases They were not enough doctors to take care of the south They didn’t like the fact that wealth was getting all of the power. One of the progressers accomplishments was in 1887, interstate commerce commission. Congress created an agency to stick their nose in the economy. The purpose of the ICC was to ensure they were fair rates on RR. They did not give the power to the ICC to punish the RR for what they were doing. Another thing that accomplished was in 1890, Surman anti-trust act made monopolies illegal, congress made monopolies illegal but they didn’t want to do this, they caved into the pressure, they wrote the law in a such a way where they couldn’t even use it in court Reconstruction periods Indies Age of economics rivalries Populism US notes day 12 Progressivism Worker mans computation Child labor laws were passed. Health clinics Workplace safey laws Fire escapes Changes in local and city government In 1900, Galveston Tx. There was a hurricane that came off the coast of Africa They didn’t have the technology that we have now so they only info that the places would get was from ships that were monitoring and letting the places know if they were a hurricane coming. The Galveston population was growing fast, bigger then Houston The population was about 38,000 The hurricane was about a category 1 but then when it hit the Gulf of Mexico, it become a category 4. Galveston right was 8ft, and some people were about the hurricane destroying the city. Some people considered that it was impossible for the hurricane to destroy the city. The hurricane hit Galveston on September 8th, less than 2,000 were able to leave before the hurricane hit. There was about 12ft and there wasn’t a street that didn’t get it by the hurricane. Thousands of building and homes were destroyed and about 30 million dollars in damages, nearly 105 billion adjusted for inflation. As many as 12,000 people were killed because of the hurricane This has to do with progressivism because the people of Galveston said thought the government didn’t know how to deal with the growth of Galveston, they wanted to change the government, rather then having a major, they would have people in different roles in a consul. This changed the way of government because of the hurricane. Many states started to adopted the secret ballot. You would have required to have kids have education 1906, Pure food and drug act. this was inspired by muckrakers. You would have one guy named Ida Tarbell would exposed all of the business practices of standard oil. Upton Sinclaire decided to investigate the meawhat t business. He wrote the Jungle about his experience in the investigation. He found that bugs got throw in with the regular meet, they would put a lot of chemicals into the meet so that customers would not notice. They would not care about the meet at all, no bathrooms, no health stuff at all. They didn’t care about anything, they found a skeleton in some lard which they sold out after finding the skeleton. This would be the first time that the federal government seeing at look and making sure the food was safe. They would protect the American consumer. One of the biggest thing that was added was the addiction of four new amendments. They got the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th. The 16th created a national income tax The 17th, the direct election of us senators. The 18th, pro Alcohol The 19th, woman the right to vote. By 1920, progressivism hit a brick. wall and suddenly ended. US notes day 13 The souther Progressivism. Three racial components When the southerners were looking for very way possible to regain control of the black population Congressional bills being considered in congress would make it harder for them to vote. A majority of white southerners were stuck in an agrarian south, and wanted the South to remain as it was. Rather than becoming industrial. 1890 census White southerners tried to argie that slavery was a positive thing and pointed to the Bible as proof. Somewhere in the Bible says “SLaves obey your Master’s” and White Southerners said you can’t contradict God’s word. They would also argue that black’s were inferior people, which was a popular belief across all of the US all the time. They was a black middle class that was living a better life then some white middle class people. They said they would sen more troops to the south. Blair bill Codge bill Bonebods 1. Racial disenfranchisement - they were taking away the right to vote. The white southerners wanted to take away the black peoples right to vote. They had a problem because of the 15th amendment. The 15th amendment was designed to give black men the right to vote. a. 1890 Mississippi, Mississippi adopted a new stay constitution, know as the Mississippi plan. When they changed their constitution, they put in new voting restrictions, such as literacy tests, keeping black people from voting because most black people could not read or write. b. There was a poll tax, this targeted poor people from voting exceptionally black people that were poor. The grandfather clause existed that led people whise parents or grandparents fought in the Civl War, not have to pay the tax. Most whites had a close member of their family that fought in the war, and most blacks didn’t. Day 15 of US NOTES 2nd exam will be on October 25 another assignment is due 28th we will not have a book 4 reflection that week because of the exam Richard right exam is due November 4th Jim Crow, the purpose was to maintain white supremacy. racial enforcement, racial control Jim Crow was a new form of racial edict Consequences for not following Jim Crow laws could be very bad for the person. lydeniching was the go to punishment for violences of racial edict lydeninching was usually used by a mod for a killing tactic. Georgia had led the nation in lynching. There was about 32000 + lynchings In some ways, lynchings was a form of entertainment for the south Lynching was not illegal FDR, who is by all accounts, one of the most libraries presidents that we had. Black people would keep going to him to stop lynching. Even his wife wanted him to stop it but he didn’t do it because he needed the souths vote. FDR is Franklin D. Roosevelt Only two years ago, lynching was passed by congress as a hate crime By the 1890’s, you began to new papers stores about black men raping white women. Most of the stories were not true at all but it was in the news paper so it had to be true. The white southerner argues would be that we knew this would happen, that rather the black community progressing, they retrogressed. Without the control of whites to control the natural tendencies. They began to go back to their African roots. There is a myth that is began called the black beast rapist Where it was believed that black men were lustful after white women Birth of a nation- a movie in the 1915 It was about the reconstruction in the south, republicans had raised up freed black pushed aside southern whites. Promoted blacks into union and us army. These black officers were in control of the south. Someone has to rescue the south, which was the klu klux klan This was one of the first big movies in America, people standing in line just to see the movie. Using the movie to get the myths out that black people are horrible and thinks that the movie is true so that use that to keep lynching black people. the whole nation went along with this and no group never said this is wrong. Day 16 of US NOTES Richard wright Have several answers for each answer on the Richard wright Progressivism, southern progressivism, and something else The message of the movie was that the south was right all along Look what happened when we freed them, we tried to tell you not to do this. The south was right and making a case for it because of the movie and the representation that the movie had. Lost cause: it was immediate after the war, spread all around town and it was saying that the war was never about slavery. but instead of it being about slavery, it was about states rights, all the southerners were doing was defending themselves about Southerner aggression. We are living and breathing the lost cause as we sit here. the lost cause was semi permanently nailed into the southerner seal. conferdate monuments were examples of the lost cause. Statues are littered across the south of General Robert E. Lee and various confer date leaders. Over the past few years there have been confederate monuments that have been torn down but most of them are still standing. There was some ing of reconciliation between the North and South, the North felt bad for the way they treated the south so they started to invited southerners. They invited confederate leaders to speak in the north at rallies. The south thought they had to do whatever they could to control the black population, and the North agreed. Even in the 1920’s, about 90% of Americans were still racist. No wonder that the Jim Crow law stayed around so long. When stuff was filmed and put up on the news, did people start to reconsider, out of sight, out of mind. Southerner men felt so defeated that the women would feel so bad that they created confederacy to cheer on the men in the civil war. New generation of southerners holding their head up high and thinking that they are doing good and doing it for their women. In 1889, Sam Holt Hose, was a Black men in some county, he killed a white man named Alfred with an axe to the head. He kills Cranford and he knows he has to go so he goes on the run, this becomes a huge newspaper slavery across the nation. Sam Holt become a fugitive and as he was on the run, the story grew. Same Holt was accused of raping Alfreds wife on the floor in front of the children. they announce to the world when Sam Holt was going to get lynched, he was getting lynched at 2’ Sunday afternoon for people to make traveling plans. thousands of people are buying tickets and this becomes a huge thing. There was train stations that would be taking people to the lynching and back to the train station after the lynching because it was so huge. Sam was strapped to a tree and wood was pled in front of him, Sam was emotionless throughout the procedure. Kerosine was poured on the wood. Sam was multilated multiple times on his body. Same maintained a stoic silence, no crying or yelling. 20 matches were stuck and applied to the kerosine covered wood, for the first time he began to exhibit pain, beating his head against the tree, he freed himself from the chains and fell forward. He fell partly out of range of the fire but he was thrown back into the flame. In 5 minutes, the body was extended and in 10 minutes the body was melted into pieces. He was burned alive. Thousands of people watched, no one objected to this. Many women children watched him get burned alive. Lynching was a punishment, but it was also a form of control. Lynching victims were made examples. Even after Sam Holt was dead, they would cut out body parts and take as souvenirs. The race riot. Willington North Carolina, In 1896, black pubulist and populist parties After the election, white men were going out on the streets and killing black people in the streets. The newspaper said that the black people were the aggressors and that they were only a couple of blacks killed which was not believed true and were believed to be around 100 killed. After the mod got fed up with this and the white people stopped, they were not done with the black people. They started to kick out black peoples out of their Homes and making them leave. The Atlanta race riot in 1906, Atlanta was growing, the population had doubled in the past 15 years, as has the black population. Black communities began mixing in with the white communities, blacks also began to move up to middle class, whites did not like this at all. There was two people running for the governor, Hoke Smith and Clark Howell. There began to a racial battle between the two saying that they were friends of the Negros. This grew the racial tensions of the city. Crime rates in Atlanta had gone up, stories in the newspaper were filled with black men assaulting white women. There was a rumor of pictures of naked white women in negro dives. This newspaper started to write stories calling white men to arms and defend white women. September 22th, white men began to pour into the streets and hunt down blacks in the streets. This event went on for 2 days. The governor tried to call a stop to these riots, but they wouldn’t listen. He finally had to call the national guard, but even they couldn’t stop the riots. The riots finally stopped the a huge rain storm came into Atlanta and the blacks thought that the riots finally stop but they were wrong. On Sunday the riots would start up again and began to do worse. Leo Frank case: Leo Frank was a Jewish factory superintendent in Atlanta, Georgia, whose trial and lynching became one of the most infamous and controversial events in American history. His story is deeply entwined with issues of anti- Semitism, racism, and injustice in the early 20th century. The Crime and Arrest In April 1913, the body of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, a worker at the National Pencil Company (where Frank was superintendent), was found in the factory's basement. She had been brutally murdered. Leo Frank, as her employer and the last person reported to have seen her alive, was arrested and charged with her murder. Another key figure in the case was Jim Conley, a Black janitor at the factory, who initially claimed no involvement but later testified that he helped Frank dispose of Phagan's body, under Frank's orders. The Trial The trial took place in an atmosphere of sensationalism and prejudice, particularly against Frank, who was a Jewish Northerner in a largely Christian, Southern community. Public outrage over Phagan's murder fueled anti-Semitic sentiments. Despite weak and circumstantial evidence, and Conley's inconsistent testimony, Leo Frank was convicted of murder in August 1913 and sentenced to death. Appeals and Commutation Frank's legal team appealed the case, and the trial attracted national attention, with many arguing that Frank had been unjustly convicted in a biased atmosphere. Several legal experts and journalists raised doubts about Conley’s testimony and the fairness of the trial. In 1915, the outgoing governor of Georgia, John Slaton, reviewed the case and commuted Frank's death sentence to life imprisonment, believing there was not enough evidence for execution. Lynching Slaton's decision to commute Frank's sentence provoked outrage in Georgia. A group of prominent local citizens, calling themselves the "Knights of Mary Phagan," took matters into their own hands. On August 16, 1915, they abducted Leo Frank from the state prison where he was held and drove him to Marietta, Georgia, Mary Phagan's hometown. There, they lynched him by hanging him from a tree. Legacy Frank's case had a lasting impact on American society. His lynching fueled the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, but it also sparked the formation of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in 1913, which was founded to combat anti-Semitism and protect Jewish rights in America. In 1986, the state of Georgia issued a posthumous pardon to Leo Frank, not on the grounds of his innocence, but in recognition that the state had failed to protect him and provide him with a fair trial. The case remains a symbol of injustice and the dangers of mob mentality, racism, and anti-Semitism. Day 17 of Us Notes The survivors of black wall st. didn’t talk about it until the late 90’s or early 2000’s one of the leading black voices in the community was named Booker T Washington was born in 1856 in Virginia, born a slave and during reconstruction they started to build schools which he went to in the south. He grew up to be an educator and found a very famous black school called Tuskegee Institute. Students would study for to farm, how to be a mechanic, and how to work with your hands, like a trade school. Female students would learn household things such as sewing and cooking. Washington philosophy was that the black community needs to lean how to work and take care of themselves, to not concern themselves with Jim Crow, he encouraged his community to be passive about Jim Crow. He was favored by whites because he taught blacks to be passivate about Jim Crow, he was the first black person to be invited to the White House. Washington was invited to speak at a cotton exposition in Atlanta. He was told to calm the fears of investors, this would be known as the Atlanta compromise speech. In his speech, he called out blacks for getting into office. Even though 95% of them didn’t know how to read or write/illiterate. He encouraged the black community to take care of themselves, before going into congress. Washington says that the black community was not ready to be equals with whites, and that they’d have to start at the bottom and demonstrate to white society that they’re equal. He is pretty much saying that the black community needs to get their hands dirty, learn to do the simple things which will prove that they are equal. 2 WEB Dubois, born in 1868 and died in 1963. He was the first black person to get a PHD at Harvard. He would then go on to teach at an Atlanta college where he would learn what Jim Crow law really felt like and met Booker T Washington and told Washington that what the hell are you doing here. He hated Booker T Washington. Dubois was not from the south and didn’t know what it was like to be black. The black community should follow the talented tenth, in other words, 90% of the blacks community should follow the 10% at theta. This was a message of ignorance, telling the majority of the population that they are wrong. In 1908, Dubois is one of the founding members of the national association of the advancement of color persons. In was whites and blacks that formed this association. It was important because the began to develop a legal strategy to win a court case against the Jim Crow law. In 1954, some court cases that would be called brown vs Board of Education, would get rid of separation between blacks and whites in schools. Marcus Garvey was born in 1887 and died in 1940. He would form an organization called universal Negro Improvement association.(UNIA). In 1960 he’d come to America and his organization would grow rapidly across the country. Not just by the elites, but by the common people of the black community. He had a message that resonated, he was telling the black community to be proud of their culture, heritage, history and appearance. He wasn’t telling people what to do, just to be proud of who they were. He believed that they was only one solution to Jim Crow and it was called Pan African which called the black community to move to Africa. He suggested to the black community since they are not African but African American, they should build their own country, with their own personal history. He was on stage with the KKK because they would have something in common because they were both against the mixing of races. He would spread his work through blacks church’s, which were the centerpiece for black culture. In 1922, he was charged with mail fraud charges and sent to prison, after prison he would be sent back to Jamaica. This were three responses to the Jim Crow law. Before the 20th century, abut 90% of blacks lived in the South. At the peak of the great migration, 40% lived in the North, 53% lived in the South, and 7% in the West. Exam review day Available from 6am to 11pm Friday We began with populism, populist movement was the first of two reform movements, both had there known things, populist movements was led by farmers, in particular reforms only take place when there are problems. They sought to solve these problems by makig a political party, the populist party. Having organized around a political party in 1892, they meet at a convention in Omaha. Nebraska At this convention, they. Nominated the president, vice president and adopted a platform. Ultimately, the populists failed miserably, they failed to win elections and they failed their agenda. We looked at a man with a hoe, know what they meant, It means the labor of much of humanity, he is holding the world on his back. Who were the progressives, and what problems did they Identify. The progressives were not farmers. they both were a response to the industrial revolution. We were talked about a number of solutions that progressives had, what were the solutions. Southern progressivism and national progressive had. What are the three racial components, it was a system that earned a named. This would be called Jim Crow. The only reason for Jim Crow was to maintain white supremacy Jim Crow was not all just laws, but was a series of habits, practices and traditions. It was a system of racial etiquette and expectations. It was difficult for southerners to prevent black men from voting because of the 15th amendment. Southerners were creative and worked around the amendment. Beginning in Mississippi, we began to see Jim Crow codified in the law more systematically. What happened after the emancipation with the black community. The first thing they did was they tried to separate themselves from white people. Why was there a need for segregation laws. Why did it come to be, whether this laws from constitutional. Talked about the court case. Then we talked about the greatest horror in Jim Crow, where we had the lynching, race riots and overall hatred towards the black community, all of that had already existed but grow more. How could white southerners justify this? Fake newspapers headlines were put across the U.S. about blacks beasts and how dangerous black people were. We talked about some lynchings like Sam holt. We talked about Leo Frank. Then we talked about race riots. And the purpose of race riots. Because there were so much anger that they whites did to take it out on the black community. Rather than lynching focused on specific people. The Atlanta race riots. Revisit the reasons for the race riots. The black voices. Three black voices. Booker T Washington, tha bois and one more, we talked about what there philosophies were, Who were the progressives, there were middle class and they enjoyed a better life than their parents. Who wanted to fix the problems, Plessy vs fergaseen. The constitution said laws were applied to everyone equal. What were the problems of the progressives and how did they address it, City councils, a new form of local government, came out of progressivism, progresivist loved working together, as committees. Give me one way the populist and progressive were alike, they both saw the government as a tool for reform agrarian society problems were addressed locally, by the city, county, or state. The problems were too big and spread out to be rooted out by anything other than the federal government. Lost cause was also something to bind white southerners together. What are some ways the south was different. Foods, some of the languages we used. One of the things that is unique is because we were the only party of the country that was ever defeated in war, until Vietnam. That defeat itself was a defining element of the south that is still seen today. The lost cause was an expression of saying we didn’t actually lose the war.