Midterm 2
Category: Altro
è stato aggiornato: 28 ott 2018
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Created byJeffrey Braun
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Jungle is released; talks about how gross the meat industry is; leads to industry legislation and rulesRefrigerated rail cars
-influences American taste and products they buy, as shipping meat is so easy nowNew
eventindustrial mining comes to CA because all of the easy gold has been mined
-Chinese miners work for companies because Foreign Miner's Tax makes it hard for them to work aloneChinese merchant class starts to develop
-sell to Chinese Community
-bring wives over from China and other things to show they can assimilateRecession because there are more men than jobs
-Dennis Kearney's starts the Workingmen's Party in attempt to get rid of Chinese and CapitalismPage Act
first federal legislarion to end open border immigration
-only ban that is strictly followed is ban on Chinese women immigrationCA Constitution, Article XIX
-bans hiring of Chinese labor
-drove many Chinese to leave CAChinese Exclusion Act
-prevented chinese laboreres from immigrating to US for 10 yearsRock Springs Massacre
- Wyoming; many Chinese die and homes destroyed
-example of anti-Chinese Sentiment outside of CASiege of Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico
-anti chinese violenceAmericans begin to think of NA situation as a violation of human rights
-Friends of the Indians
-annihilation of culture through assimilation
- "kill the indian, save the man"Indian Rights Association
-lobbied for NA rights
-assimilate NA and make them citizens
-monitored reservationsA Century of Dishonor by Helen JacksonRamona by Helen Jackson
-book about racism suffered by mixed race NA
-attempted to bring issue to American publicDawes Severalty Act
-imposed on NA, assigns 160 acres per NA male head
-emphasized agrarian and american ideals
-hoped to cause assimilation
grants citizenshipLone Wolf v. Hitchcock
-Supreme Court case says congress could void treaties, so they are allowed to sell reservation land
-significant departure from Worchester v. Georgia because it claimed that tribes are not sovereignSherman Industrial School, CA
-NA kids are taught to be farmers and shown aspects of American lifestyle so they can assimilate
-kill their culture and Americanize themSir Francis Galton coins eugenics
-people are inherently inferior/defective
-being poor is your faulteugenics is considered a science
-selective breedingHuman Betterment Society, CA
-educational group to inform public on eugenics
-for the protection of USLewis Terman creates the IQ test
-intelligence is racialAlbert John Ochsner performs compulsory sterilizations on mental patients to stop the cycle of crime
-families did not have to be told about the sterilization, completely up to the doctor until 1950Supreme Court expands sterilization to jailsBuck v. Bell
-an unwed mother becomes sterilized
-supreme court justice, Oliver Holmes, says it is better for the world to sterilize her before her kids follow her footstepsJohnson-Reed Immigration Act
- limits number of people allowed to immigrate with quotas
-heavily limits southern/eastern Europeans (hated because of eugenics)Buffalo Bill starts to produce grand wild west shows
-brings the west to the east
-white victimhood and NA aggression were the themesNew
eventBecomes evident that natural resources are not infiniteAudubon Society
-conserve birdsLacey Act
-illegal to use birds/feathers on hatsForest Reserves Act
-protects forest areas from businesses/ squattersNewlands Reclamation Act
-funded irrigation projects (dams) in the westfirst national park (yellowstone)Raker Act
-clash between preservationist and conservationist ethics
-leads to the flooding of Hetch Hetchy, which later leads to the creation of the National Park Service (1916) to prevent things like this from happening againCA farmers are growing everything in large amountsStreetcar Suburbs
-allows people to get downtown and enjoy city amenities/work while still keeping their house at a distance and away from the city's social illsHenry Morgan says "come not to the great city"
-suburbs are a middle ground between rural and urbanTwain describes CA as "dust, heat"
-makes it hard for boosters to sell agriburbs in CASalt Lake City Herald claims CA is a good place to send sinners to dieAmericans view CA as backwards/ very negativelyFair Oaks, CA
-one of the first agriburbsWilson says "any day in Berkeley is better than anywhere else"Theo Roosevelt appoints Commission on Country Life
-to figure out solutions to reformers' ideas
-changed structure of rural life by making ruralites dependent on government/bankingSmith-Lever Act
-establishes Cooperative Extension Agency, which connects education and farmers
-improve aspects of farming, both farm and domesticMorrill Act
-funded educational institutions by granting land to states to sell them and use money to create colleges
-1890 revision attempted to stop racism in land grant colleges by forcing colleges to admit all races or create a college specifically for that race
-education is now for everyone of all classes and racesPeriodi
Chinese Immigrants come for goldProgressive Era
-widespread attempt to fix problems
-reaction to the Gilded Age, where many aspects of society are terrible
-new political parties are formed; populists (farming), socialists (labor movement), progressives (environmental protection, want two things; solutions to social ills should come scientifically and systematically and the government should be accountable to the people/ fix problems)CA farming is great, unlike the rest of the country
-Ca implements intensive farming rather than extensive
-use technology to maximize yield
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