HST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jerry Simpson, Direct Election, Carnegie Steel Company
15 Feb 2017
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Hst 202 week 1 - lecture 1. The kkk define themselves to have specific characteristics that make them american. Economic definition: work hard to reach certain ideals. Reform movements; est. of the new deal: minimum standard of living, 60s to include social responsibility civil rights movement. Hst 202 week 1 - lecture 2. Looks wealthy but has many sides to it. Civil war ended when the north gave up trying to oppress them. Democrats agreed with republicans to withdraw union army in the south. Whites attacking whites for being sympathetic: jim crow segregation. Grandfather clause way to deny citizenship to colored people. Poll tax colored lived in peonage: economic system where you"re constantly in debt. Plessy v. ferguson, 1896: all citizens allowed equal treatment. New immigrants, 1883: influx of immigrants, asian immigrants, no border between mexico and usa. Demorepublicats: republicans: yankee: northeast and upper midwest, democrats: urban immigrants and solid south. Linotype machine: newspapers, mechanizes type setting.
