4th Period Notes
Here are the notes from today:
Corrupt Government and Organized Crime
- COntractors paid off govnerment officials, known as "graft"
- Politians built political organizations called "machines" to gaurantee re-election
~ Head of machine usually the mayor, known as "boss"
~ Used ward bosses to go out and gain loyalty of city dwellers( immigrants etc.)
- Organized crime came in the form of gangsters who threatened manufacturers who didnt pay for "protection"
African American Labor adn Community
- African Americans stayed rural and southern
~ sharecroppers and tenant farmers
~ taken advantage of by whites:
forced to accept low prices for crop and pay high prices for supplies
- Some African Americans migrated to industrial areas of south and work in coal and iron mines, as furniture manufacturers and etc.
- Some African Americans migrated north and took up servitude jobs ( janitor, elevator operators etc.) vs. industrial jobs
- Southern industries harsh for blacks: were marched to work and only paid once a month
- Jim Crow Laws passed in every southern state legislature in 1890 and legalized segregation/separation of the races. North had prejudice but no laws as such.
-Northern blacks resourceful : owned real-estate agancies, funeral homes along with building black churches and etc.
NOTE: Booker T. Washington pushed that blacks should devote themselves to self-help and self- sufficiencyas first priority.
Workers and Unions
- DUe to harsh working conditions in the 20th century, workers create unions in hope for economic improvement.
~ Knights of Labor was a major one created but failed.
- Fedearl nor stae government supported unions and sent military forces to settle strikes
- Unions often accused of violating Sherman Anti-Trust Act by courts
- Unions like the American Federation of LAbor and Industrail Workers of the World were well known.
-The AFL : Was for skilled workers only and did not accept black, immigrants or unskilled workers. Had aboyut 2 million members.Withdrew itslef form political activis, and ran under "business unionism"
-The IWW- Accepted everybody affected by economic hardships( blacks, white, women, unskilled, semi-skilled etc.).Refused to sign contracts w/ employers. Made up of mostly isolated workers(lumbermen,longshoremen etc).
-The IWW was seen as too radiacl and reckless , the strikes that they organized turned to bloody massacres
~ Ludlow Massacre: 66 men, women, and children died
Thats all folks.....
Chanel
Corrupt Government and Organized Crime
- COntractors paid off govnerment officials, known as "graft"
- Politians built political organizations called "machines" to gaurantee re-election
~ Head of machine usually the mayor, known as "boss"
~ Used ward bosses to go out and gain loyalty of city dwellers( immigrants etc.)
- Organized crime came in the form of gangsters who threatened manufacturers who didnt pay for "protection"
African American Labor adn Community
- African Americans stayed rural and southern
~ sharecroppers and tenant farmers
~ taken advantage of by whites:
forced to accept low prices for crop and pay high prices for supplies
- Some African Americans migrated to industrial areas of south and work in coal and iron mines, as furniture manufacturers and etc.
- Some African Americans migrated north and took up servitude jobs ( janitor, elevator operators etc.) vs. industrial jobs
- Southern industries harsh for blacks: were marched to work and only paid once a month
- Jim Crow Laws passed in every southern state legislature in 1890 and legalized segregation/separation of the races. North had prejudice but no laws as such.
-Northern blacks resourceful : owned real-estate agancies, funeral homes along with building black churches and etc.
NOTE: Booker T. Washington pushed that blacks should devote themselves to self-help and self- sufficiencyas first priority.
Workers and Unions
- DUe to harsh working conditions in the 20th century, workers create unions in hope for economic improvement.
~ Knights of Labor was a major one created but failed.
- Fedearl nor stae government supported unions and sent military forces to settle strikes
- Unions often accused of violating Sherman Anti-Trust Act by courts
- Unions like the American Federation of LAbor and Industrail Workers of the World were well known.
-The AFL : Was for skilled workers only and did not accept black, immigrants or unskilled workers. Had aboyut 2 million members.Withdrew itslef form political activis, and ran under "business unionism"
-The IWW- Accepted everybody affected by economic hardships( blacks, white, women, unskilled, semi-skilled etc.).Refused to sign contracts w/ employers. Made up of mostly isolated workers(lumbermen,longshoremen etc).
-The IWW was seen as too radiacl and reckless , the strikes that they organized turned to bloody massacres
~ Ludlow Massacre: 66 men, women, and children died
Thats all folks.....
Chanel
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