Week 33 - Labor issues, Deep south and Cleveland's 2nd term

Gilded Age : Gilded Age America - a land of employees

Define: : Define: Strike Picket Line Scab Scrib

Unions : Why did laborers form unions in the Gilded Age? What were the foremost labor unions of the age? What were their varying memberships and foci? Unions

Knights of Labor : What kinds of goals did they have for both business and society? What stood in the way of the goals? Knights of Labor

AFL : What simpler goals did Samuel Gompers with the AFL tackle? AFL

Child Labor : Child Labor Why was it hard to end practices of exploiting child labor?

Union Obstacles : Union Obstacles What obstacles did laborers face when attempting to form unions? American public opinion was mostly against early labor Movements. What were contributing factors to this?

Deep South : Deep South Why did young blacks in the South have hope as the Gilded Age began? What laws did Southern whites enact in order to prevent blacks from exercising their civil rights? Why were these unconstitutional laws not overturned?

Deep South : Deep South By what other means, besides unjust and unconstitutional laws, did Southern whites subjugate and oppress blacks? How did Southern society develop into a society of deep racial segregation? Examples?

Booker T Washington : Booker T Washington Who was he? What was his advice to black people? How did whites react to him? What about blacks?

South during Gilded Age : South during Gilded Age What were the overall results of developments in the South? Lynchings Sharecropping “separate but equal”

Cleveland’s 2nd Term : Cleveland’s 2nd Term For what reasons did the people want Cleveland back as president?

Cleveland’s 2nd Term : Cleveland’s 2nd Term When was the height of his popularity? Why? What was his reputation like when he began his 2nd term and why?

Cleveland’s 2nd Term : Cleveland’s 2nd Term What things happened to tarnish his reputation and frustrate his initiatives during his second term?

Cleveland’s 2nd Term : Cleveland’s 2nd Term What do Cleveland’s last words tell us about life in the sin-soaked world in which we live? What does this mean for a Christian?