Ch. 16 & 19 Test March 6th American History 02/17
Search For Order 1880-1920
Essay Questions:
Search for order at home-
Home-workers, farmers, and middle-class: America conf of labor, farmers alliance, middle class- born and raised in city w formal education- approach problems differently Search for order abroad-
Abroad-central America, Asia, and Europe
Dramatic change in the economy
Search For Order
1.Economic and social disruption
2.Rapid industrialization
3.corporations Economic changes
●Rural farming community-industrial urban society
●Pre1865: labor-intensive, small scale (building things for the community
you live in), community
●Post1865: capital intensive economy, large scale, corporate (sell stocks, take out loans) (material resources, dealing w/ people and stuff
as in material things (making chairs and tables in different countries, becomes international))
●Workers lose control and the workplace loses control ●Work in a factory not with your family anymore, work with strangers ●Independent artists
●Workers are not treated right anymore, they’re just workers
●Knights of labor they want to organize everything first successful national
●Boycott not strike
●Reject capitalism- cooperative system
●Haymarket Square Bombing- downfall:decline of the knights of labor because of this
●The knights of labor are blamed for throwing the bomb ●Gompers and strike: they have to strike
●Only American born white men
●Gompers liked capitalism- he just wanted the money to go to the workers-
he cared about his workers
●Revolutionary union- industrial workers of the world 1905
●Limited union membership (diversity and individualism) hard to organize everybody bc of the diverse workers
●Order and stability The search for order Populism
●Farm problems
●Overproduction- driving down market price bc of debt, cost of production, tax/debt, alienation
●A farmer like a worker suffered economic sufferage ●Organize state farmers alliance- coming together, shared problems and discuss what’s happening turns into
●National farmers alliance and industrial union
●They draw the list of demands- Ocala demands
●Direct election of senators- let the farmer elect someone who has the same opinion who can help the farmers
●Progressive income tax- if you have a new way of making money, there should be new taxes- tax personal income- taxed income solution to the problem
Search For Order 1880-1920
Essay Questions:
Search for order at home-
Home-workers, farmers, and middle-class: America conf of labor, farmers alliance, middle class- born and raised in city w formal education- approach problems differently Search for order abroad-
Abroad-central America, Asia, and Europe
Dramatic change in the economy
Search For Order
1.Economic and social disruption
2.Rapid industrialization
3.corporations Economic changes
●Rural farming community-industrial urban society
●Pre1865: labor-intensive, small scale (building things for the community
you live in), community
●Post1865: capital intensive economy, large scale, corporate (sell stocks, take out loans) (material resources, dealing w/ people and stuff
as in material things (making chairs and tables in different countries, becomes international))
●Workers lose control and the workplace loses control ●Work in a factory not with your family anymore, work with strangers ●Independent artists
●Workers are not treated right anymore, they’re just workers
●Knights of labor they want to organize everything first successful national
●Boycott not strike
●Reject capitalism- cooperative system
●Haymarket Square Bombing- downfall:decline of the knights of labor because of this
●The knights of labor are blamed for throwing the bomb ●Gompers and strike: they have to strike
●Only American born white men
●Gompers liked capitalism- he just wanted the money to go to the workers-
he cared about his workers
●Revolutionary union- industrial workers of the world 1905
●Limited union membership (diversity and individualism) hard to organize everybody bc of the diverse workers
●Order and stability The search for order Populism
●Farm problems
●Overproduction- driving down market price bc of debt, cost of production, tax/debt, alienation
●A farmer like a worker suffered economic sufferage ●Organize state farmers alliance- coming together, shared problems and discuss what’s happening turns into
●National farmers alliance and industrial union
●They draw the list of demands- Ocala demands
●Direct election of senators- let the farmer elect someone who has the same opinion who can help the farmers
●Progressive income tax- if you have a new way of making money, there should be new taxes- tax personal income- taxed income solution to the problem
